"In Epidemic of Care, two of the country's leaders in health care offer a primer on health care cost drivers - and what can be done to curtail them and save the system. This hard-hitting look at a failing system reveals : why the cost of health care will cause deep cuts in the take-home pay of American workers - a 12 percent premium increase wipes out a 4 percent salary increase; how voter demands for changes in the system will bring about a political nightmare; why many smaller companies will drop health care coverage altogether, leaving millions uninsured; how our health care delivery system is really a non-system - with millions of independent, uncoordinated, and separately moving parts and its own priorities; why health care will never approach perfection until computers become exam room tools for the frontline physician; and how to cure the system in a way politically acceptable to all sides."--BOOK JACKET.