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Utilizes the findings of behavioral biology to fashion a broad outline of healthcare reform.

Table of Contents

Setting the Perspective
Ten Postulates
The Setting, the Issues, the Question
Healthcare Myths
The Present State of U.S. Healthcare
What Key Healthcare Players Want
What Patients Want
What Healthcare Professionals Want
What Healthcare Payers Want
The Missing Parts of U.S. Healthcare
Individual Human Nature--Healthcare's Missing Link
The Human Nature of Groups
Cross-Group Competition--Costs and Benefits
Options, Constraints, and Questions
Viable Options
Fifty Questions
Glossary
Index

About the Author

MICHAEL T. McGUIRE is Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, a member of the Brain Research Institute, and Director of the Sepulveda Veterans Administration/UCLA Nonhuman Primate Laboratory. He is the author or coauthor of more than 150 journal articles and four books, including Darwinian Psychiatry (1998) with Alfonso Troisi.

WILLIAM H. ANDERSON is Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School and Senior Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to having held a variety of teaching and administrative positions, he is the author of more than 70 articles in scientific and policy journals.

Reviews

?The authors examine the flaws embedded in the current debate about health care and offer ten postulates around which any successful system must be devised. They then identify the problems from the perspectives of patients, professionals, and public and private insurance providers.?-Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment

"The authors examine the flaws embedded in the current debate about health care and offer ten postulates around which any successful system must be devised. They then identify the problems from the perspectives of patients, professionals, and public and private insurance providers."-Abstracts of Public Administration, Development, and Environment