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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword by Paul Krugman -- Foreword by Senator William H. Frist, MD -- Prologue -- Introduction -- I. A Visual Stroll through America's Health Care Wonderland -- 1. U.S. Health Spending and What Drives It -- 2. Pricing Americans Out of Health Care -- 3. Some Interesting or Curious Facts about Our Health Care System -- 4. Who Actually Pays for Health Care? -- 5. Value for the Money Spent on U.S. Health Care -- II. Ethical Perspectives on U.S. Health Care -- 6. The Social Role of Health Care -- 7. The Mechanics of Commercial Health Insurance from an Ethical Perspective -- 8. The Elephant in the Room and the Ethical Vision Baked into Health Reform Proposals -- 9. The Ethical Vision of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 (Obamacare) -- 10. The Ethical Vision of the Health Reform Proposals of 2017 -- Conclusion: A Novel (My Own) Reform Proposal -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

In Uniting America, some of the country's most prominent social thinkers-among them Francis Fukuyama, Daniel Yankelovich, Amitai Etzioni, Alan Wolfe, Uwe Reinhardt, and Thomas E. Mann-reject the myth of polarization. On topics ranging from the war on terrorism, health care, economic policy, and Social Security to religion, diversity, and immigration, the authors argue that there are sensible, centrist solutions that are more in keeping with prevailing public sentiment and that would better serve the national interest. On issue after issue, the authors show how the conventional framing of the debate in Washington has misled Americans, creating a series of false dilemmas and forcing choices between two extremes-at the expense of more balanced and pragmatic policy solutions based on enduring American values.Uniting America provides a blueprint for a fresh approach to American politics, grounded in moderation, pragmatism, and the shared values that unite Americans

Through Canadian and international perspectives, Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care explores the management of growing health costs in an extraordinarily complex arena. The book moves beyond previous debates, agreeing that while efficiencies and better value for money may yet be found, more fundamental reforms to the management and delivery of health services are essential prerequisites to bending the cost curve in the long run. While there is considerable controversy over direction and details of change, there also remains the challenge of getting agreement on the values or principles that would guide the reshaping of the policies, the structures, and the regulatory environment of health care in Canada. Leading experts from around the world representing a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds come together to organize and define the problems faced by policy-makers. Case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Nordic countries, and industrialized Asian countries such as Taiwan offer useful reform experiences for provincial governments in Canada. Finally, common Canadian cost factors, such as pharmaceuticals and technology, and paying the health workforce, are explored. This book is the first volume in The Johnson-Shoyama Series on Public Policy, published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, an interdisciplinary centre for research, teaching, and executive training with campuses at the Universities of Regina and Saskatchewan