cover image The Health Care Solution: Understanding the Crisis and the Cure

The Health Care Solution: Understanding the Crisis and the Cure

Duane C. Dauner. Taylor Publishing Company (TX), $21.95 (174pp) ISBN 978-0-9636281-9-0

Writing with Bowker ( The Visionary Leader ), Dauner, CEO of the California Association of Hospitals, here offers his proposals for restructuring health care. Comparing the plans of other nations, and citing reasons for the soaring medical costs, Dauner proposes limiting government to a policy and support role. His plan of ``managed collaboration'' calls for universal access to a unified benefit package stressing prevention and funded by full capitalization from individuals and large and small business alliances at rates to be negotiated between carriers and health networks. Networks are to be chosen by consumers, with general practitioners acting as ``gatekeepers'' for patients. Unlike the Clinton plan, Dauner prefers a ``bottom-up'' approach to a ``formula-driven, top-down'' payment cap. Among the spate of recent books on the subject, this one stands out. 15,000 first printing; $25,000 ad/promo; author tour. (Feb.)