Author: Maine Health Information CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government employees' health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Status Report on the Maine State Employees Health Insurance Group
Author: Maine Health Information CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government employees' health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Annual Report on the Status of the Maine Workers' Compensation System
Author: Maine. Bureau of InsurancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Workers' compensation
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
The Healthcare Imperative
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309144337
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.
Status Report
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical care, Cost of
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Documents
Author: Maine. LegislatureMedicaid Data
Author: United States. Medicaid Bureau. Division of Analysis and EvaluationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicaid
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Health-care and Social-service Workers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Statistical Reference Index
Author: Monthly Labor Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.
Critical Condition
Author: Donald L. BarlettPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767910753
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Award-winning journalists expose the horrific practices within America’s health care system, profiling patients and doctors and offering startling personal stories to illuminate what’s gone wrong. “Every American ought to read this book.”—The Plain Dealer Tens of millions of people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . dirty examination and operating rooms in doctors’ offices and hospitals . . . more people killed by mistakes than by many diseases. This may sound like the predicament of a failed state, but this is America’s health care reality today. The United States spends more per capita on health care than any other nation, yet benefits are shrinking and life expectancy here is shorter than in countries that spend significantly less. Meanwhile, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains reap tremendous profits, as our elected politicians, beholden to these same companies, enact piecemeal measures that lead to needless deaths, refusing to come to grips with a system on the verge of collapse. A superb investigative work that is enormously compelling and addresses the concerns of every American, Critical Condition offers an insightful prescription for getting the system back on the right track.