Health Care for Us All
Getting More for Our Investment

Health Care for Us All challenges the common belief that health care problems in the United States are difficult and possibly insoluble.

Earl L. Grinols (Author), James W. Henderson (Author)

9780521738255, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 May 2009

302 pages, 9 b/w illus. 12 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 4.1 kg

'Health Care for Us All is first-rate analysis of our healthcare problems. Professors Earl Grinols and James Henderson, two scholars at Baylor University, demonstrate that there are solutions to the nation's problems that contain none of the undesirable side effects that would be seen in the enactment of currently proposed health care reforms for the United States or the failed socialized systems of some other industrialized nations. Applying basic economic principles, they present their 'Targeted Intervention Plan,' which is readily comprehensible, makes sense to the ordinary person, but most of all provides a compassionate delivery of health care services.' Walter E. Williams, George Mason University

Health Care for Us All challenges the common belief that health care problems in the United States are difficult and possibly insoluble. Americans want to get more for their health care spending, including insurance coverage for all that is personal, portable, and permanent. They want a system that respects incentives for quality care, exhibits a responsible approach to the budget, and is sustainable. Health Care for Us All adopts these five objectives and applies an efficiency filter to identify the virtually unique framework that meets all objectives. Impediments to achieving Americans' goals can be summarized under the rubrics of too little insurance, too little income, and too little properly functioning market. The efficient remedy for each is the subject of the book. Related philosophical as well as economic issues, such as why there should be government involvement in health care, are analyzed.

Part I. Goals and Working Principles: 1. Introduction
2. Goals
3. Principles
Part II. Background Economics and Ethics: 4. Markets, VPOs, government
5. Education, charity, and the American ethical base
Part III. Application: 6. Why government in health care?
7. Insurance
8. The new Baylor plan
Part IV. Protective Measures: 9. Forestalling free-riders
10. Preserving prices
11. Inducing innovation
12. Summary.

Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB], Health economics [KCQ], Economics [KC]