AEI is rereleasing some of its most prescient and groundbreaking works from its earliest thinkers and innovators. These books, part of a series called AEI Classics, are available for download as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.
Saving Lives and Saving Money is a new approach to the challenge of creating a better system of health and health care for the twenty-first century, a system that saves lives and saves money. The authors' goal was to establish principles of transformation and present stories of actual companies, organizations, and products that are successfully trailblazing this process of transformation. Their achievements not only offer conceptual proof that those principles work, but they also provide us with the opportunity to use or copy the ideas that are already saving lives and saving money.
Newt Gingrich is a senior fellow at AEI.
Table of Contents
Preface by William D. Novelli Introduction: It's Your Life and Your Money: What Is at Stake in the Health Debate?
Why the Best of the Past Is Not Good Enough for the Future
Why Reforming Healthcare Is Doomed to Fail and Only a Process of Transforming Health and Healthcare can Succeed
The Principles of a 21st Century System of Health and Healthcare
Health First, Healthcare Second
Personal Control of Healthcare Dollars
Medical Culture
Toward a 21st Century System of Health Justice
Saving Lives and Saving Money
For the Big Breakthroughs in Health: Invest in Science and Discovery
Active Healthy Aging: Living Healthier, Happier, and Longer
Appendix A: Transforming Examples Appendix B: Biothreat: Transform or Risk Mass Deaths Appendix C: Website Reference
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