{"product_id":"chronic-condition-sherry-glied-9780674128934","title":"Chronic Condition: Why Health Reform Fails","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronic Condition\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compelling analysis of the causes of the current health care crisis and of the shortcomings of reform proposals. It also offers an ingenious new framework for reform that, while minimizing government interference, would provide a means for financing care for the less affluent. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSherry Glied shows that rising health care spending is consistent with a rising standard of living. Since we can, as a nation, afford more health care, reform must address not the overall level of health care costs but the distribution of health care spending. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePrior reform proposals, Glied argues, have failed to account for the tension between the clearly manifested desire for improving the quality of health care and the equally widespread interest in assuring that the less fortunate share in these improvements. After careful analysis of the ill-fated Clinton plan, Glied proposes a new solution that would make the willingness to pay for innovation the means of financing health care improvements for the less affluent. While rejecting the idea that the distribution of health care should be perfectly equal, Glied's proposal would enable all Americans to benefit from the dynamics of the free market.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sherry Glied\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674128931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674128934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.57h x 6.48w x 1.06d","brand":"Sherry Glied","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44255026807039,"sku":"9780674128934","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_13767956-e089-4f8b-863b-6a632ea7f712.jpg?v=1694615698","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chronic-condition-sherry-glied-9780674128934","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}