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

The U.S. healthcare system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the...

The pivotal role of employer paid health insurance -- An alternate universe : life without the tax subsidy -- How to get there from here and also grow the economy -- Who might support or oppose our proposal? -- What else needs fixing? -- Pre-existing conditions and the individual mandate --...

Prescription Drugs: Monopolies and Profits -- Hospitals : Profit First -- Physicians -- Health Plans : The Money Middlemen -- European Systems of Health-Care Delivery -- The Affordable Care Act of 2010 and Other Federal Health-Care Laws -- Emergency Departments -- The Medical Implant Device...