Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection)

Acknowledgments

This book is a distillation of what we now know about fixing American healthcare. It describes the collective experience and thinking of millions of Americans, channeled through personal accounts and conversations, written reports, statistics, economic data and healthcare research. I wish that there were some way to individually thank each of the patients, clinicians, executives, economists, researchers and others who directly and indirectly contributed their time, insights and expertise, but there are far too many. Nevertheless, this book could never have been written without you.

Distilling healthcare is one thing, but surviving the process of getting into print is another. There are some individuals who need to be singled out ...