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Author Mahar, Maggie.

Title Money driven medicine : the real reason health care costs so much / Maggie Mahar.

Publication Info. New York : Collins, [2006]
©2006

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.4 M277    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  338.4 MAHAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.433 M27    Assumed Lost
Edition First edition.
Description xxi, 451 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-429) and index.
Contents 1. The road to corporate medicine -- 2. The cost of competition : an overview -- 3. For-profit hospitals : a flaw in the business model? -- 4. Not-for-profit hospitals : "no margin, no mission"? -- 5. When more care is not better care -- 6. "Too little, too late" : the cost of rationing care -- 7. Doing less and doing it right : is pay for performance the answer? -- 8. Device makers, drugmakers, and the FDA -- Where we are now : everyone out of the pool.
Subject Medical economics.
Medical care -- Cost effectiveness.
Economics, Medical -- United States -- Popular Works.
Cost-Benefit Analysis -- United States -- Popular Works.
Fees and Charges -- United States -- Popular Works.
Health Care Costs -- United States -- Popular Works.
ISBN 006076533X
Standard No. 9780060765330
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