Table of Contents
Foreword 5
Introduction 7
Chapter 1 What Is the Current State of the Health Care System in America?
1 The U.S. Health Care System Offers the Best Health Care in the World Michael D. Tanner 11
2 The U.S. Health Care System Is Not Working Karen Davis 16
3 The Problems with America's Health Care System Are Exaggerated N. Gregory Mankiw 22
4 Health Care Should Be a Right Daniel Zhou 29
5 Health Care Should Not Be Treated as a Right Lee Hieb 34
Chapter 2 What Issues Are Impacting Health Care in America?
1 The Insurance Industry Is Problematic Barbara Ehrenreich 41
2 The Insurance Industry Is Not Problematic Mark Gimein 46
3 Employers Need to Be More Involved in Health Care Michael E. Porter Elizabeth O. Teisberg Scott Wallace 53
4 Employers Need to Be Less Involved in Health Care Clive Crook 60
5 The High Cost of Health Care Is the Result of Waste Wayne Laugesen 67
6 The High Cost of Health Care Is the Result of Improvement in Quality Don Peck 72
7 The U.S. Health Care System Spends Too Much Money Without Good Health Results Doug Pibel Sarah van Gelder 79
Chapter 3 How Should the Health Care System in America Be Reformed?
1 More Government-Provided Care Is Needed to Reform the Health Care System David M. Cutler J. Bradford DeLong Ann Marie Marciarille 87
2 Less Government-Provided Care Is Needed to Reform the Health Care System Dave Camp 93
3 A Consumer-Driven Health Care System Is the Best System Bill Steigerwald interviewing Regina Herzlinger 98
4 A Consumer-Driven Health Care System Is Not the Best System Trudy Lieberman Timothy Jost 106
5 A Single-Payer System Is the Preferable Health Care System Leonard Rodberg Don McCanne 114
6 A Single-PayerSystem Is Not the Preferable Health Care System Kevin C. Fleming 120
Facts About Health Care 126
Organizations to Contact 129
For Further Reading 134
Index 140
Picture Credits 144
