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We've got you covered : rebooting American health care / Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, [2023]Description: xxii, 275 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780593421239
  • 059342123X
Other title:
  • We have got you covered
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Contents:
Poor design : The ubiquitous risk of becoming uninsured -- Shoddy construction : the incomplete insurance of the insured -- Rebuild, don't renovate : the sobering lesson from our health policy history -- A universal commitment : what the insurance of the "uninsured" teaches us -- Origin stories : why this social contract? -- What is to be done : Why universal health insurance is the only answer -- Adequacy, not equality : what universal coverage won't do -- The foundation : coverage must be automatic -- Free and clear : no patient fees -- A shack, not a chateau : basic coverage should be very basic -- Trust the process : deciding what to cover -- Budget matters : relax, we can afford it -- Beyond basic : designing supplemental insurance -- Home inspection : taking stock -- Epilogue : can it be built?
Summary: "From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform/" -- Amazon.com.Summary: "A lively and provocative proposal for American health care reform"-- Provided by publisher.
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From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform

Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. These proposals miss the point.

As the Stanford health economist Liran Einav and the MIT economist and MacArthur Genius Amy Finkelstein argue, our health care system was never deliberately designed, but rather pieced together to deal with issues as they became politically relevant. The result is a sprawling yet arbitrary and inadequate mess. It has left 30 million Americans without formal insurance. Many of the rest live in constant danger of losing their coverage if they lose their job, give birth, get older, get healthier, get richer, or move.

It's time to tear it all down and rebuild, sensibly and deliberately. Marshaling original research, striking insights from American history, and comparative analysis of what works and what doesn't from systems around the world, Einav and Finkelstein argue for automatic, basic, and free universal coverage for everyone, along with the option to buy additional, supplemental coverage. Their wholly original argument and comprehensive blueprint for an American universal health insurance system will surprise and provoke.

We've Got You Covered is an erudite yet lively and accessible prescription we cannot afford to ignore.

"From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provocative proposal for American health insurance reform/" -- Amazon.com.

"A lively and provocative proposal for American health care reform"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-262) and index.

Poor design : The ubiquitous risk of becoming uninsured -- Shoddy construction : the incomplete insurance of the insured -- Rebuild, don't renovate : the sobering lesson from our health policy history -- A universal commitment : what the insurance of the "uninsured" teaches us -- Origin stories : why this social contract? -- What is to be done : Why universal health insurance is the only answer -- Adequacy, not equality : what universal coverage won't do -- The foundation : coverage must be automatic -- Free and clear : no patient fees -- A shack, not a chateau : basic coverage should be very basic -- Trust the process : deciding what to cover -- Budget matters : relax, we can afford it -- Beyond basic : designing supplemental insurance -- Home inspection : taking stock -- Epilogue : can it be built?

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