The US health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of
Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by …

Today's preoccupation with cost shifting and cost reduction undermines physicians and
patients. Instead, health care reform must focus on improving health and health care value …

Health care reform in the United States is on a collision course with economic reality. Most
proposals focus on measures that will produce one-time cost savings by eliminating waste …

Prologue: More than any other single figure, Alain Enthoven is responsible for establishing
and promoting the ideas that are the intellectual underpinnings of America's rapidly …

Written by the President and CEO of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and a
leading health care journalist, this groundbreaking book examines how leading …

Prologue: More than any other individual, Alain Enthoven of Stanford University has devoted
his intellectual energies to transforming the rhetoric of health care competition into the reality …

The incentives and structure of health care in the United States produce exactly what we
should expect in the quality of care for chronic disease: highly variable patterns of care and …

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Prologue: Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, economists have
lauded the benefits of free, competitive markets. Even today the basic idea underlying much …

Our paper draws lessons for policymakers from twelve communities as we identify the power
and limits of general market-based strategies for improving the efficiency of health systems …