MEDICINE AND MONEY

The health care industry has undergone so much change since 1990 that the rules that apply to buying medical services for the past hundred years are useless. Health care is more directly--and more immediately--impacted by financial issues today than it ever has been. This book shows how faulty actuarial data, stubborn personal biases and political regulators are twisting health care into a Dickensian mess--and offers tools for untwisting some of the worst complications. This is a consumer advice title on paying for health care, which includes an investigative approach to analyzing some critical problems in the delivery of medical services.