Description: Having served as a Senior Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors with responsibility for health care policy during both the Bush and Clinton administrations, Glied provides a compelling analysis of the current health care crisis and offers a new framework for reform.
Brief description: Sherry Glied is Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Health at Columbia University. She was a Senior Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors with special responsibility for health care policy during the Bush and Clinton administrations.
Review Quotes: Chronic Condition differs from most [analyses of reform] in focusing on the underlying economic arguments surrounding the debate about health care reform and in offering a carefully constructed critique of the positions adopted by the main protagonists in the debate. It is also distinctive in seeking to go beyond analysis of a failed initiative to advocate an alternative route to address the well-known weaknesses of the US system...[Chronic Condition is] valuable in explaining the failure of previous reform methods and in offering the outlines of an alternative.--Chris Ham "Social Policy [UK]"