Main description:

"We don′t really have a health care delivery system in this country. We have an expensive plethora of uncoordinated, unlinked, economically segregated, operationally limited micro systems, each performing in ways that too often create suboptimal performance both for the overall health care infrastructure and for individual patients."

from the Introduction

Praise for Health Care Reform Now!

"George Halvorson convincingly argues that the United States finally has what it needs to make universal coverage a reality and lays out a plan to get us there. It should be required reading on Capitol Hill."
Congressman Pete Stark (D–CA), chairman, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee

"George Halvorson′s timing couldn′t be better. This is a book that everyone who is searching for solutions should read."
Helen Darling, president, National Business Group on Health

"Halvorson′s comprehensive approach, rooted in a practical understanding of the complexities of American health care, helps us focus on what matters."
Ian Morrison, Ph.D., health care futurist and author, Health Care in the New Millennium

"This book is powerful and compelling. It′s just the right book for this time."
Jeffrey C. McGuiness, president, HR Policy Association

Back cover:

"We don′t really have a health care delivery system in this country. We have an expensive plethora of uncoordinated, unlinked, economically segregated, operationally limited micro systems, each performing in ways that too often create suboptimal performance both for the overall health care infrastructure and for individual patients."

from the Introduction

Praise for Health Care Reform Now!

"George Halvorson convincingly argues that the United States finally has what it needs to make universal coverage a reality and lays out a plan to get us there. It should be required reading on Capitol Hill."
Congressman Pete Stark (D–CA), chairman, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee

"George Halvorson′s timing couldn′t be better. This is a book that everyone who is searching for solutions should read."
Helen Darling, president, National Business Group on Health

"Halvorson′s comprehensive approach, rooted in a practical understanding of the complexities of American health care, helps us focus on what matters."
Ian Morrison, Ph.D., health care futurist and author, Health Care in the New Millennium

"This book is powerful and compelling. It′s just the right book for this time."
Jeffrey C. McGuiness, president, HR Policy Association

Contents:

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

The Author.

1. A Few Hard but Useful Truths.

2. Data: The Missing Link for Health Care Reform.

3. What Do We Do Until the E mr Arrives?

4. Basic Steps to Improve Care for Chronic Disease Patients.

5. Eight Developments That Finally Make Health Care Reform Possible.

6. Making the Market Work for Health Care.

7. A New Idea: The Infrastructure Vendor.

8. Who Should We Hire to Reform Our Health Care Infrastructure?

9. Next Steps and Expectations.

10. Cost Shift Realities.

11. Universal Coverage Now!

12. So What Should We Do Now?

Notes.