Total Cure

The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis

Harold S. Luft

    • Preface
    • List of Tables and Figures
    • List of Abbreviations
    • Introduction
    1. Build on What You’ve Got, but Recognize Real-World Constraints
    2. Overview of a Restructured Health Care System
    3. Covering the Cost of Care: Rethinking Health Insurance
    4. Organizing Care and Paying Providers
    5. Choices: Harnessing Data to Inform Decisions
    6. Financing SecureChoice
    7. Malpractice, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Education, and Prevention
    8. How SecureChoice Would Work for Patients and Physicians
    9. Getting There: Policy Choices, Implementation, and Transition
    • Notes
    • Glossary
    • Index
  • Cover: Total Cure
  • A photo of the author

Harold S. Luft is Director, Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, and Caldwell B. Esselstyn Professor of Health Policy and Health Economics, Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco (effective July 1, 2008).