Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System (The Jossey-Bass Health Series) - Hardcover

Kleinke, J. D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787959707 ISBN 13: 9780787959708

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

In this impassioned and often vitriolic book – a follow–up to the author′s bestselling Bleeding Edge: The Business of Health Care in the New Century – U.S. health care industry expert J.D. Kleinke offers an unflinching look at our broken health care system. Throughout the book, Kleinke – who was once a vocal advocate of the managed health care system – explains what went wrong and attempts to answer such perplexing questions as:

Who′s in charge of the American health care system?
How does managed care work . . . or not work?
Why have hospitals become so complex?
What are the prospects for reform?
Does the Internet change anything?
Can we solve the growing problem of the uninsured?

About this title

About the Author

J.D. Kleinke is a medical economist, health information technology executive, and the founder and President of HSN, a medical software development company headquartered in Colorado. During the 1990s, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development for HCIA Inc., helping grow the company from a start–up hospital data analysis firm into a pioneering, publicly–traded provider of health care information systems and products. Before joining HCIA, Kleinke was Director of Corporate Programs at Sheppard Pratt Health System, where he developed and managed the nation′s first provider–based managed mental health care system. Kleinke′s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, JAMA, Barron′s, Health Affairs, the British Medical Journal, Modern Healthcare and numerous other publications.

From the Inside Flap

Health care in the US is a $1.4 trillion per year fiasco. The imposition of the nation′s employers, major insurance companies, investment bankers, insurance brokers, and countless other corporate middlemen into the financing and delivery of medicine aggravates rather than resolves the fundamental structural problems that cripple the US health care system and doom the market′s ability to fix it. Managed care is the clearest proof of the essential market failures that characterize medical care in the US. This book attempts to answer questions such as: – who′s in charge of America′s health care system? – how does manage care work and not work? – how have hospitals become so complex? – what are the prospects for reform? – does the internet change anything?

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787959707
• ISBN 13: 9780787959708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256