Medical care is characterized by enormous inefficiency. Costs are higher and outcomes
worse than almost all analyses of the industry suggest should occur. In other industries …

The well-known problems range from medical errors, which by some accounts are the eighth
leading cause of death in the United States, to the soaring cost of health care. The amount …

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: In 1996 major players in the health care industry are scrambling to find the right
combination of size and services to compete in the high-stakes market of managed care …

Clayton Christensen is one of America's most influential business thinkers and writers. A
professor at Harvard Business School, Christensen is perhaps best known for his writings on …

Clayton Christensen is one of America's most influential business thinkers and writers. A
professor at Harvard Business School, Christensen is perhaps best known for his writings on …

One of the country's leading health economists presents a provocative analysis of the
transformation of American medicine from a system of professional dominance to an industry …

Prologue: However the tortuous debate over health care reform concludes this year, the
pressure on providers of care to change their traditional practices will only escalate. The …

The decade of the 1980s held promise that at last the health care industry would begin to cut
the acceleration of costs and improve service noticeably. Moreover, technology, moving at a …

ABSTRACT I study the channels through which health insurance influences medical
innovation. Following Medicare and Medicaid's passage, I find that US-based medical …