The Hospital: The House of Hope

Victor Fuchs and Karen Eggleston

Chapter 5 in Who Shall Live?:Health, Economics and Social Choice, 2023, pp 73-94 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The American hospital is large, impersonal, and dominated by elaborate technology. The American hospital is small, inefficient, underequipped, and understaffed. The American hospital exists primarily to further the professional and economic interests of physicians. The American hospital exists to serve the community. The American hospital is crowded to the point of inefficiency and even danger, and serious delays are encountered in obtaining admission. The American hospital is often half-empty, and many of its patients should be at home or in extended-care facilities. The American hospital is the noblest expression of the philanthropic impulse. The American hospital is a business run to show a profit for its owners…

Keywords: Health; Economics; Health Economics; Health Care; Health Policy; Medicine; Medical Care; Health Systems; Health Insurance; Pandemic; COVID-19; ACA; Obamacare; Health Expenditures; Health Care Spending; Health Care Utilization; Health Outcomes; Life Expectancy; Mortality; Social Choice; Innovation; Personalized Medicine; Opioids; Opioid Epidemic; Deaths of Despair; Health Disparities; Social Determinants of Health; Hospitals; Doctors; Physicians; Patients; Polarization; Partisan Politics; Values; Inflation; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 I13 I15 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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