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Understanding Healthcare Economics: Managing Your Career In An Evolving Healthcare System, Jeanne Wendel, William O'Donohue, Teresa Serratt Dec 2012

Understanding Healthcare Economics: Managing Your Career In An Evolving Healthcare System, Jeanne Wendel, William O'Donohue, Teresa Serratt

Teresa Serratt

Healthcare economics is a topic of increasing importance due to the substantial changes that are expected to radically alter the way Americans obtain and finance healthcare.

Understanding Healthcare Economics: Managing Your Career in an Evolving Healthcare system provides an evidence-based framework to help practitioners comprehend the changes already underway in our nation's healthcare system. It presents important economic facts and explains the economic concepts needed to understand the implications of these facts. It also summarizes the results of recent empirical studies on access, cost, and quality problems in today's healthcare system.

Explaining what the term healthcare crisis means, the book …