The Quality Cure: How Focusing on Health Care Quality Can Save Your Life and Lower Spending Too

Excellent book. It seems like decreasing costs whilst improving quality of patient care is possible - at least in the North America!

The Quality Cure tells some of the classic stories of quality improvement. The ideas for improvement are well known in health management circles, but told well here for a popular audience. Nothing earth shattering revelations, but lots of great details.

This is a great book by a health care economist who was involved in drafting the ACA. He has a series of episodes, founded in health care delivery examples, of what works and what doesn't to try to reduce costs. I didn't *always* agree with him, but having read the chapter, I believed I understood the issue much better than when I started to read.