Curing Medicare —— A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It

----- 治愈医疗保险：医生关于我们的医疗保健系统如何使老年美国人失败以及我们如何解决的看法

ISBN: 9781501703874 出版年：2016 页码：262 Lazris, Andy Cornell University Press

[Excerpt] With this book I hope to demonstrate how our health-care system is failing our oldest and frailest Americans, and how that failure is inextricably tied to Medicare’s philosophy and payment structure. My critique is part of a larger social debate that is developing about the goals of modern medicine in particular and the health-care system in general. Many patients, physicians, other health-care professionals, and healthcare organizations—including unions, foundations, patient-safety organizations, and politicians—are becoming increasingly concerned about the principles and practices that escalate health-care costs and put