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Strategies for Containing America's Runaway Health Care Costs
Edited by M.Gregg Bloche Leslie A. Meltzer
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Antidote by M.Gregg Bloche
Book DescriptionSoaring healthcare costs have put medical spending at the top of the national agenda and in the spotlight of the 2008 elections. Both the public and private spheres are struggling with this urgent problem. Medicare and Medicaid spending are straining federal and state budgets, private employers are abandoning coverage or shifting costs to workers and their families, and firms that provide generous coverage are risking their competitiveness in the global economy. Meanwhile, nearly 50 million uninsured Americans remain hostage to uncontrolled health costs, while the combustible combination of third-party payments and technological advances continues to fuel spending.Quality and value in health care provision are receiving increasing attention, but robust proposals to limit medical spending over the long term are not yet part of the health policy debate. "Antidote" addresses why past efforts to contain costs have failed and proposes a fresh set of solutions to America's medical cost conundrum. Anyone concerned about rising medical costs and health policy will benefit from this state-of-the-art volume written by a diverse group of leading experts.Contributors include Henry Aaron (Brookings Institution), Gerard Anderson (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Julie Bynum (Dartmouth Medical School), Kalipso Chalkidou (National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, Great Britain), Ceci Connelly (Washington Post), Richard Epstein (University of Chicago), Ruth Faden (Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics), Dana Goldman (RAND), Mark Hall (Wake Forest University), Patrick Healy (Brookings Institution), Bradley Herring (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), David Hyman (University of Illinois),Timothy Jost (Washington and Lee University), Jeanne Lambrew (University of Texas, LBJ School of Public Affairs),William Sage (University of Texas), Jonathan Skinner (Dartmouth College), Sean Tunis (Center for Medical Technology Policy), and DanielWikler (Harvard University School of Public Health).
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Book DetailsISBN: 9780815708872
Pages: 225
Imprint: Brookings Institution
Publisher: Brookings Institution
Publish Date: 1-Dec-2008
Country of Publication: United States
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Author Biography - M.Gregg Bloche
M. Gregg Bloche is Professor of Law at Georgetown University, nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings, and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University.Leslie A. Meltzer is a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Georgetown University Law Center.
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WASHINGTON -- The current crop of American men's tennis players doesn't exactly evoke memories of McEnroe and Courier, or Agassi and Sampras. That doesn't mean they aren't improving.
It's been more than a decade since an American man has held the world No. 1 ranking.
With John Isner the top-ranked American at No. 12 and no other Americans in the top 50, statistically it looks like a long road back for the Yanks. That's not to say there isn't reason to hope.
In the Citi Open quarterfinals Friday, Donald Young looked down and out against No. 21 Kevin Anderson of South Africa after losing the first set 6-3. Young was down to the big-serving 6-8 Anderson in the second as well, but the left-handed American came back to win 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2.
Young, ranked No. 73, recovered from his slow start, showing poise.
"Yeah, it's still a work in progress," the Atlanta native said after the match. "I slip back every now and then. But more so than not, I'm just being more positive. I've tried being negative. It's doesn't work. When you look at the top players in the world, that's what they do. They're staying fighting, focusing the whole time. Even if they lose, you know they are not going away. They'll stay in there and compete."
Young, 25, was once one of the USA's bright young stars, winning the junior Australian Open at 15, the youngest to do so. He followed up by ending the next year as the world's top-ranked junior male, the youngest and first African-American to hold the top spot.
Coached by his mother and father, Young's family reached out to coach Craig Boynter at a Miami WTA tournament stop last March.
Boynter said he's helping Young with the mental side of things. "Things might not be working out in the moment," Boynter said. "But are you doing the right things? That's what matters most in the big picture."
Both his performance and demeanor say it's working for Young. "What's different? Well, I'm just believing a little more," he said. "Staying into the matches, not tapping out when something goes against me or I get down. I keep fighting, I keep competing and some of the matches are turning over my way. You have to find that edge. It's starting to work. It's just starting to click in."
For the first time since an ATP stop in Bangkok in 2011, Young will play in an ATP semifinal. His opponent, Milos Raonic of Canada, remembers looking up to Young as juniors.
"His path (from junior to now), I know pretty much all of it," Raonic said. "I was a year younger than him. He was the guy you sort of looked up to. Everybody was labeling him the next big thing, the next number one, all those sorts of things. I followed what he's done, and followed it closely."
Raonic, the Canadian born, Monaco resident who is No. 7 in the world, still sees Young as a threat on court, calling him dangerous.
"He's a great fighter," Raonic said. "He gets to a lot of balls that you wouldn't expect. He's fast, but when you just look at him he doesn't look like he'd be necessarily the fastest guy. He can be quite deceiving. And obviously that forehand can be tough to deal with.
"He's quick around the court. He neutralizes well. He defends well. He does everything," Raonic added. "When you don't feel you have a certain area to go to and attack, he will make you question yourself in a match."
But does Young have the mental makeup to be a champion beyond the junior ranks?
"I don't know. Only time will tell," Raonic said.
Even Young himself sounded a little unsure when an American will again win a Grand Slam singles title or hold the No. 1 ranking.
"Ah man, that's tough. I can't answer that question because the guys at the top are not giving up any ground and hogging all the big tournaments. It's just going to take being resilient, being tough, and keep getting better. We've got to challenge each other (the Americans) to move on up the rankings."

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