Applied Healthcare Economics Unexpected Insights for Management and Policy

Preface: what managers should do; 1. Management mission impossible: my care is okay, but the system is broken; 2. Ideal decisions with and about evidence; 3: The managerial problem with primary care: coaching the quarterback of a team of cats; 4. Doctors and hospitals: can we please get along?; 5. How good can we be? How big should we be? Should we try to conquer the world?; 6. Dancing in the dark: managing with moral hazard, adverse selection, and other information imperfections; 7. Managing insurance and managing with insurance; 8. Cost effectiveness and insurance coverage: messages for true believers; 9. Value-based everything in health care: what is beyond slogans?; 10. Pricing that violates economic law: how to learn to love price discrimination; 11. Who is the buyer of insured medical care?; 12. Competition, antitrust, and regulation in hospital and health care markets; 13. Cost containment; 14. Drugs: of golden eggs, outrage, and what to do when you don't have a clue; 15. Social determinants of health and health spending: can health care change the world?; 16: Conclusion: don'ts, do's and debunks from economics.