Priceless
Goodman asserts that empowering both patients and caregivers to control healthcare decisions produces greater patient satisfaction at substantially lower costs. The book emphasizes the importance that patients, payers and providers each operate according to economic incentives that encourage them consider both the costs and benefits of care, innovate to improve outcomes and lower costs and provide subsidies that don't arbitrarily benefit one group (e.g., workers at companies that provide insurance) at the expense of other groups (e.g., workers at companies that do not.)
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