In their 2006 book, "The Business of Health," economists Robert L. Ohsfeldt and John E. Schneider set out to determine where the U.S. would rank in life span among developed nations if homicides and accidents are factored out. Their answer? First place.
That discovery indicates our health care system is doing a poor job of preventing shootouts and drunk driving but a good job of healing the sick. All those universal-care systems in Canada and Europe may sound like Health Heaven, but they fall short of our model when it comes to combating life-threatening diseases.
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The Business of Health (Paperback)
by Robert Ohsfeldt (Author), John E. Schneider (Author)
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Robert Ohsfeldt, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the School of Rural Public Health at the Texas A&M Health Science Center. He is author or co-author of more than 80 papers published in peer-reviewed journals, as is a co-author of The Business of Health (AEI Press, 2006). Dr. Ohsfeldt has been the principal investigator for research grants funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has served as a peer-reviewer for more than 30 scientific journals, and has been a member of grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, and currently serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy. Before moving to Texas A&M, Dr. Ohsfeldt was a Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Iowa. Previously, he was employed as a manager of health outcomes research for Eli Lilly and Company, where he received the President’s Award from Lilly Research Laboratories in 2001. Dr. Ohsfeldt also has been a Research Economist with the Center for Health Policy Research at the American Medical Association, an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Administration and Policy at Arizona State University, and a Professor in the Department of Health Care Organization and Policy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he served as Interim Department Chair in 1997. Dr. Ohsfeldt completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Houston in 1983, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in Healthcare Finance at Johns Hopkins University and the Texas Medical Center during 1987-88.
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