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By Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. 506 pp. Boston, Harvard Business School Press, 2006. $35. ISBN 978-1-59139-778-6.

Virtually all of us are frustrated by the high costs and underperformance of the U.S. health care system. We spend about twice as much per capita on health care as our European counterparts, yet our results on key metrics such as infant mortality rates and life expectancy are only about average. Solutions offered to get us out of the difficulty — which incorporate a focus on increased consumer cost sharing — seem ill equipped to address the magnitude of the problems.

It is in this context that Michael Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg present their compelling critique of our health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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