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• Title:Miracle cure : how to solve America's health care crisis and why Canada isn't the answer / by Sally C. Pipes ; with a foreword by Milton Friedman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Pipes, Sally, 1945-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
  Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy.
  
• Published/Created:San Francisco : Pacific Research Institute : Vancouver ; Fraser Institute, ©2004.
  

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  • Call Number: W84.AA1 P56 2004
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Health care reform--United States.
  Health care reform--Canada.
  
• Description:xxiii, 219 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:0936488921 (pbk.) :
  
• Contents:Foreword / Milton Friedman
  Introduction : why is health care such as mess and what can we do about it?
  Pt. 1. US solution : expand consumer choice
  1. What is the real nature of health care in the United States?
  2. How did big government become big medicine?
  3. How is Washington responding to health care now?
  4. What is a third-party payer - and what's so bad about it?
  5. Is managed care good or bad?
  6. Why can't we get the best health care at the best prices?
  7. What's wrong with tying health care to jobs?
  8. Is there a better way than employer-sponsored health care?
  9. So what is the solution?
  10. How did medicare/medicaid get so big?
  11. What about the condition of our seniors?
  12. What's wrong with prescription-drug coverage for seniors?
  13. Is there a solution for seniors?
  14. What's the proper role for doctors?
  15. What's the best role for insurance companies?
  16. Why not crack down on greedy pharmaceutical companies?
  17. How should we treat pharmaceuticals?
  18. Why not just import cheap drugs?
  19. What role do lawsuits play in increasing health care costs?
  20. What does the future hold for quality in US health care?
  21. How would consumer-driven health care affect doctors? : how could it benefit the uninsured, seniors, and all consumers?
  22. Innovation is alive and well
  23. Consumer power is the answer
  Pt. 2. Canadian solution : legalize competition
  Introduction : Canada's health care conundrum
  1. What is the single-payer system?
  2. How does Canada's single-payer system differ from universal coverage?
  3. How did the Canadian system come to be?
  4. What does Canada spend every year on health care? : how does the Canadian health care debate affect the United States?
  5. Can you give me concrete evidence of the failure of single-payer?
  6. How does canadian federalism work in practice?
  7. How does the Canadian system treat pharmaceuticals?
  8. Still, Americans are the ones taking buses to Canada, right?
  9. Is there a role for the private sector in Canada?
  10. Are there benefits to the Canada system?
  11. Are there signs that Canada is correcting its system?
  12. What is the prognosis for Canada if it doesn't reform?
  13. What is the Romanow Commission Report? : how will it affect access and quality of care?
  14. What are the solutions for Canada?
  Conclusion : an appeal to reason and compassion.