Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation Rebitzer James B.
Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation Rebitzer James B. An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society.The evolution of the…
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Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation Rebitzer James B.
An engaging account of innovation in healthcare and why the results fall short for patients and society.The evolution of the cell phones we carry in our pockets demonstrates that quality can increase while prices fall. Rebitzer and Robert S. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper?In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B.
Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, they argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question. It is too easy to profit from low-value innovations and too hard to profit from innovations that reduce the costs of care.
The result is a healthcare system that is profusely innovative yet remarkably ineffective in discovering ways to deliver increased value at lower cost.Why Not Better and Cheaper? sheds new