What's Your Life Worth?: Health Care Rationing... Who Lives? Who Dies? And Who Decides? - Hardcover

Dranove, David

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9780130671653: What's Your Life Worth?: Health Care Rationing... Who Lives? Who Dies? And Who Decides?

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ISBN 10: 0130671657 ISBN 13: 9780130671653

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2003

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Healthcare rationing is coming -- with a vengeance. What's Your Life Worth? previews tomorrow's healthcare system, showing what it'll feel like to be at the mercy of a system that might choose not to cure you. Right now, experts are calculating which diseases are worth curing, which treatments are worth paying for, and which aren't. This book tells you who they are, what they're up to, what they think you're worth -- and what to do about it.

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Synopsis:

Healthcare rationing is coming, with a vengeance. If you value your health, you'd better understand it--and be ready. In this book, one of the world's leading healthcare economists offers a hard-nosed analysis of today's soaring healthcare costs--and shows how it will feel to be at the mercy of a system that might choose not to cure you. Dranove previews the transition from today's ad hoc rationing to an era of "rational rationing," in which economic analysis of the value of human lives and specific treatments is both explicit and routine. He assesses the mixed results of rational rationing in Great Britain and Australia, where government decision-makers struggle with balancing science and politics, in the face of budgets that place a shockingly low value on life. You'll discover healthcare economists have learned to numerically score different diseases to determine which are most worth curing; even how to calculate the value of your own life in tomorrow's healthcare system.

Finally, Dranove compares the track record of government-sponsored and market-based rationing, concluding that if rationing must come, it's best left to the market, where individuals can decide for themselves what their lives are worth.

About the Author:

David Dranove is one of the world's most respectedhealth care economists. He is the Walter McNerneyDistinguished Professor of Health Industry Managementat Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School ofManagement, as well as Director of the Center for HealthIndustry Market Economics there.

His research and teaching focus on problems in industrialorganization and business strategy with an emphasison the health care industry. He has published over 70research papers, monographs, and book chapters on healtheconomics and pharmacoeconomics, and is co-author ofthe popular textbook The Economics of Strategy and the tradebooks How Hospitals Survived and The Economic Evolution ofAmerican Health Care: From Marcus Welby to Managed Care.

His many awards have included the Association ofUniversity Programs in Health Administration'sJohn D. Thompson Prize in Health Services Research andnumerous "research article of the year" prizes. ProfessorDranove holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Stanford University.

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