Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691177996 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Callahan argues that the U.S. He presents his arguments, discusses alternatives, and anticipates counterarguments, all with ample citations. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives"No one who comes to Taming the Beloved Beast with an open mind can deny the intellectual and ethical power of the questions he poses. This excellent overview of reaching the goal of universal health care is a good resource for anyone concerned with the future of health care and its economics."--Library Journal"The rising cost of health care has preoccupied policy makers and the public for decades. One of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books, Health Sciences category for 2009Recommended Reading, 2011 James A. He probes issues central to resolving t
. His many books include Medicine and the Market. Daniel Callahan is senior researcher and president emeritus at the Hastings Center, which he cofounded, and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
Only a government-regulated universal health care system can offer the hope of managing technology and making it affordable for all.. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. Callahan weighs the ethical arguments for and against limiting the use of medical technologies, and he argues that reining in health care costs requires us to change entrenched values about progress and technological innovation. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone? In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on. The technology bubble, he contends, is beginning to burst. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Taming the Beloved Beast shows that the cost crisis is as great as that of the uninsured. He argues that we can't escape it by organization