Healthy, Wealthy or Wise?: Issues in American

This book focuses on the problems in America's health care system that have developed over the past 30 years and that will be with us for the next 30 years. It goes beyond mind-numbing quantitative data to probe the underlying causes of the nation's difficulties. Three broad questions are addressed: Why are health care costs in the United States higher than elsewhere? What needs to be done to bring down costs without lowering quality? Is America doing enough about research, prevention, and public information?

Preface	p. vii
Notes	p. viii
Determinants of Health	p. 1
Notes	p. 6
Why Are Costs Out of Control?	p. 7
Notes	p. 27
Must Living Standards Decline?	p. 28
Notes	p. 38
Health Insurance Raises Demand and Supply	p. 40
Notes	p. 49
The Excess of Physicians and Services	p. 51
Notes	p. 77
The Medicalization of Health	p. 82
Notes	p. 97
Mental Illness	p. 99
Notes	p. 119
The Excessive Demand for Medical Care	p. 123
Notes	p. 136
Research and Technology	p. 138
Notes	p. 161
The Physician as Agent	p. 164
Notes	p. 179
Prevention: Environmental and Behavioral Modification	p. 181
Notes	p. 210
The Demedicalization of Health Care	p. 213
Notes	p. 222
What to Do?	p. 223
Notes	p. 250
Index	p. 253
About the Author	p. 263
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