Comments on: Market-driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses In The Transformation Of America’s Largest Service Industry http://www.healthcareno1.com/beautyskincare/market-driven-health-care-who-wins-who-loses-in-the-transformation-of-americas-largest-service-industry/ All natural skin care products help your skin age gracefully.Learn beauty skin care for your complexion and professional skin care system.Choose your face skin care products to help you look natural beauty. Thu, 13 May 2010 11:43:42 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Abbott http://www.healthcareno1.com/beautyskincare/market-driven-health-care-who-wins-who-loses-in-the-transformation-of-americas-largest-service-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-680 Abbott Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:49:15 +0000 http://www.healthcareno1.com/beautyskincare/?p=254#comment-680 </div> <div class="tiny" style="margin-bottom:0.5em;"> <b><span class="h3color tiny">This review is from: </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Market-driven-Health-Care-Transforation-Americas/dp/0201489945/ref=cm_cr_dp_orig_subj">Market-driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses In The Transforation Of America's Largest Service Industry (Hardcover)</a></b> </div> There's hope. Finally, a clear thinker presents a viable case for something other than a purely political solution to the continuing health care cost crisis. Herzlinger is anything but pithy. However, buried in the laborious presentation of her case is a blueprint for the only real solution to this critical problem (i.e., a serious dose of personal responsibility for the cost of health care by those who create the demand). This book is worth reading. This review is from: Market-driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses In The Transforation Of America’s Largest Service Industry (Hardcover)

There’s hope. Finally, a clear thinker presents a viable case for something other than a purely political solution to the continuing health care cost crisis. Herzlinger is anything but pithy. However, buried in the laborious presentation of her case is a blueprint for the only real solution to this critical problem (i.e., a serious dose of personal responsibility for the cost of health care by those who create the demand). This book is worth reading.

]]> By: Myla http://www.healthcareno1.com/beautyskincare/market-driven-health-care-who-wins-who-loses-in-the-transformation-of-americas-largest-service-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-679 Myla Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:40:13 +0000 http://www.healthcareno1.com/beautyskincare/?p=254#comment-679 </div> No one will accuse Ms. Herzlinger of being a great writer, but her conversational style is easy to read and she does have some good ideas for how the healthcare industry should be. Ideas that still haven't been implemented even now, 8 years after it was written. She does make a fairly convincing argument for how focused factories could reduce costs. In addition, suggestions that everybody should have health insurance, that healthcare providers should not be insulated from market forces, that consumers are the ones with the real power to stop the soaring healthcare costs, and that they'll only curtail spending when given incentive to do so are good points that can't be made often enough. Points that seem even more relevant today given the continued increase in healthcare costs, the inability of the HMO system to manage them, and the spiraling problem the growing uninsured population is creating (the more uninsured people there are, the more insurance costs, which increases the number of uninsured, etc.). She has good ideas, I think it's time people listened. It's of vital importance that the healthcare system incorporate what's great about America, what has made America a leader in every other industry: innovation and sensibly regulated free markets. Ms. Herzlinger gives us a good way to get it done.<p>I also have to ask if some of the other reviewers actually read the book. The author gives a pretty good analysis of how focused factories would reduce costs, using that 20% of the people produce 80% of the costs as a cornerstone of her argument. Also, she cites physicians' inability to deal with market forces as a cause of the problem and gives suggestions for how to deal with it. </p> No one will accuse Ms. Herzlinger of being a great writer, but her conversational style is easy to read and she does have some good ideas for how the healthcare industry should be. Ideas that still haven’t been implemented even now, 8 years after it was written. She does make a fairly convincing argument for how focused factories could reduce costs. In addition, suggestions that everybody should have health insurance, that healthcare providers should not be insulated from market forces, that consumers are the ones with the real power to stop the soaring healthcare costs, and that they’ll only curtail spending when given incentive to do so are good points that can’t be made often enough. Points that seem even more relevant today given the continued increase in healthcare costs, the inability of the HMO system to manage them, and the spiraling problem the growing uninsured population is creating (the more uninsured people there are, the more insurance costs, which increases the number of uninsured, etc.). She has good ideas, I think it’s time people listened. It’s of vital importance that the healthcare system incorporate what’s great about America, what has made America a leader in every other industry: innovation and sensibly regulated free markets. Ms. Herzlinger gives us a good way to get it done.

I also have to ask if some of the other reviewers actually read the book. The author gives a pretty good analysis of how focused factories would reduce costs, using that 20% of the people produce 80% of the costs as a cornerstone of her argument. Also, she cites physicians’ inability to deal with market forces as a cause of the problem and gives suggestions for how to deal with it.

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