Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation

Why Not Better and Cheaper?: Healthcare and Innovation

Rebitzer, James B.
Rebitzer, Robert S.

Hardcover

Business GeneralHealth GeneralSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0197603106
ISBN13: 9780197603109
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 27 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
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. Why doesn't healthcare also get better and cheaper?

In Why Not Better and Cheaper?, James B. Rebitzer and Robert S. Rebitzer offer an answer to this question. Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, they argue that the healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. 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 light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, and how to point innovation in a better direction.

2 different editions

Also available

Also in

Health General

View All