An accidental healthcare system -- Paging doctor Welby -- Therapy for an ailing health economy -- The managed care … prescription -- Self-help -- The quality revolution -- Mending the safety net -- Reviving the American healthcare system …

"When it comes to healthcare, bigger isn't always better. The early-1990s rise of "megaproviders"-large, hospital …-based healthcare systems that have become the norm in American medicine-brought promises of accessibility, cost savings, and excellence … to the American healthcare experience. Today's megaproviders, following three decades of growth and consolidation …

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the … succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of …