The Cost Disease Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn’t 1st Edition by William J Baumol ,David de Ferranti ,Monte Malach ,Ariel Pablos Méndez ,Hilary Tabish ,Lilian Gomory Wu ISBN 0300179286 978-0300179286

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ISBN 10:0300179286 

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Author:William J.Baumol ,David de Ferranti ,Monte Malach ,Ariel Pablos-Méndez ,Hilary Tabish ,Lilian Gomory Wu 

The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, the well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the “cost disease” as a major source of rapidly rising costs in service sectors of the economy. Once we understand that disease, he explains, effective responses become apparent.

Baumol presents his analysis with characteristic clarity, tracing the fast-rising prices of health care and education in the United States and other major industrial nations, then examining the underlying causes, which have to do with the nature of providing labor-intensive services. The news is good, Baumol reassures us, because the nature of the disease is such that society will be able to afford the rising costs.

Table of contents: 

1. Part 1: The Survivable Cost Disease
2. Why Health-Care Costs Keep Rising
3. What Causes the Cost Disease, and Will It Persist?
4. The Future Has Arrived
5. Yes, We Can Afford It
6. Dark Sides of the Disease: Terrorism and Environmental Destruction
7. Common Misunderstandings of the Cost Disease: Cost versus Quality and Financial versus “Physical” Output Measures
8. The Cost Disease and Global Health
9. Part 2: Technical Aspects of the Cost Disease
10. Hybrid Industries and the Cost Disease
11. Productivity Growth, Employment Allocation, and the Special Case of Business Services
12. Part 3: Opportunities for Cutting Health-Care Costs
13. Business Services in Health Care
14. Yes, We Can Cut Health-Care Costs Even If We Cannot Reduce Their Growth Rate
15. Conclusions: Where Are We Headed and What Should We Do?

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