6. Common Misunderstandings of the Cost Disease: Cost Versus Quality and Financial Versus “Physical” Output Measures

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xvii
5. Part 1. The Survivable Cost Disease
6. 1. Why Health-Care Costs Keep Rising 3
7. 2. What Causes the Cost Disease, and Will It Persist? 16
8. 3. The Future Has Arrived 33
9. 4. Yes, We Can Afford It 43
10. 5. Dark Sides of the Disease: Terrorism and Environmental Destruction 69
11. 6. Common Misunderstandings of the Cost Disease: Cost Versus Quality and Financial Versus “Physical” Output Measures 77
12. 7. The Cost Disease and Global Health 94
13. Part 2. Technical Aspects of the Cost Disease
14. 8. Hybrid Industries and the Cost Disease 111
15. 9. Productivity Growth, Employment Allocation, and the Special Case of Business Services 116
16. Part 3. Opportunities for Cutting Health-Care Costs
17. 10. Business Sevices in Health Care 141
18. 11. Yes, We Can Cut Health-Care Costs Even If We Cannot Reduce Their Growth Rate 154
19. 12. Conclusions: Where Are We Headed and What Should We Do? 180
20. Notes 183
21. References 207
22. About the Authors 237
23. Index 239