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Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

Author : Ronald J. Angel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139454552
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis written by Ronald J. Angel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis examines the implications of the fragmented and two-tiered health insurance system in the United States for the health care access of low-income families. For a large fraction of Americans their jobs do not provide health insurance or other benefits and although government programs are available for children, adults without private health care coverage have few options. Detailed ethnographic and survey data from selected low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio document the lapses in medical coverage that poor families experience and reveal the extent of untreated medical conditions, delayed treatment, medical indebtedness, and irregular health care that women and children suffer as a result. Extensive poverty, the increasing proportion of minority households, and the growing dependence on insecure service sector work all influence access to health care for families at the economic margin.

America's Health Care Crisis Solved

Author : J. Patrick Rooney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047033441X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book America's Health Care Crisis Solved written by J. Patrick Rooney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-07-25 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s Health Care Crisis Solved highlights the major pitfalls of our current health care system and shows why, without changes, health care costs will soon demolish the American economy as well as the opportunity to receive quality care. However, contrary to the increasingly popular idea of a government health plan, the alternative presented by authors J. Patrick Rooney and Dan Perrin brings the self-interest of you, the American consumer, into the equation.

Sick

Author : Jonathan Cohn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060580453
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Sick written by Jonathan Cohn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating work of reporting about the failure of America's medical system, as examined through the stories of the people who engineered the current health care revolution and those who have suffered from it.

Access to Health Care in America

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309047420
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Access to Health Care in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are accustomed to anecdotal evidence of the health care crisis. Yet, personal or local stories do not provide a comprehensive nationwide picture of our access to health care. Now, this book offers the long-awaited health equivalent of national economic indicators. This useful volume defines a set of national objectives and identifies indicatorsâ€"measures of utilization and outcomeâ€"that can "sense" when and where problems occur in accessing specific health care services. Using the indicators, the committee presents significant conclusions about the situation today, examining the relationships between access to care and factors such as income, race, ethnic origin, and location. The committee offers recommendations to federal, state, and local agencies for improving data collection and monitoring. This highly readable and well-organized volume will be essential for policymakers, public health officials, insurance companies, hospitals, physicians and nurses, and interested individuals.

Healthcare for All Americans

Author : Nelson A. Paguyo
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780533156207
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Healthcare for All Americans written by Nelson A. Paguyo and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years in private practice, retired physician and author Dr. Nelson A. Paguyo explores the deplorable state of the American healthcare system. With plenty of professional insight, Dr. Paguyo proposes a system of universal healthcare as a solution to America's medical crisis.

The Health-care Crisis in America Today

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Health-care Crisis in America Today written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An American Sickness

Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698407180
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.

Health-Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030946921X
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Health-Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.

Poverty and Health [2 Volumes]

Author : Kevin M. Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 1440802637
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Health [2 Volumes] written by Kevin M. Fitzpatrick and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of in-depth essays focused on the health issues facing the poorest populations in the United States as it relates to the common good of all Americans. Despite living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, far too many low-income and no-income men, women, and children in this nation are without health insurance or health care. More than half of those financially bereft have a serious health problem, with poor children three to five times more likely to experience chronic health issues than their more affluent peers. This set is a compilation of writings that address the complex problem of poverty and health across location and population. Through two informative volumes, the authors examine key issues including health care delivery, access, and disparities among various disenfranchised populations. Leading experts explore the reciprocal relationship between economic disadvantage and poor health, and ponder potential solutions to cope with these challenges. Covers the plight of those most vulnerable in our current health care system, including the elderly, homeless people, and low-income minority youth Brings together an interdisciplinary group of authors with diversified views on the relationship between health and poverty Provides comprehensive coverage of both physical and mental health issues affecting Americans today Details the causes of poor health for America's poverty-stricken infants, children, adolescents, and adults

Breaking Point

Author : John P. Geyman
Publisher : John Geyman, M.D.
ISBN 13 : 0983773408
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Breaking Point written by John P. Geyman and published by John Geyman, M.D.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our market-based, profit-driven health care system in the United States has put necessary care increasingly beyond the reach of ordinary Americans. Primary health care, the fundamental foundation of all high-performing health care systems in the world, is a critical but ignored casualty of the current system. Unfortunately, primary care is often poorly understood, even within the health professions. This book describes what has become a crisis in primary care, defines its central role, analyzes the reasons for its decline, and assesses its impacts on patients and families. A constructive approach is presented to rebuild and transform U.S. primary care with the urgent goal to address the nation's problems of access, cost, quality and equity of health care for all Americans.

America's Health Care Safety Net

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030906497X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book America's Health Care Safety Net written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's Health Care Safety Net explains how competition and cost issues in today's health care marketplace are posing major challenges to continued access to care for America's poor and uninsured. At a time when policymakers and providers are urgently seeking guidance, the committee recommends concrete strategies for maintaining the viability of the safety netâ€"with innovative approaches to building public attention, developing better tools for tracking the problem, and designing effective interventions. This book examines the health care safety net from the perspectives of key providers and the populations they serve, including: Components of the safety netâ€"public hospitals, community clinics, local health departments, and federal and state programs. Mounting pressures on the systemâ€"rising numbers of uninsured patients, decline in Medicaid eligibility due to welfare reform, increasing health care access barriers for minority and immigrant populations, and more. Specific consequences for providers and their patients from the competitive, managed care environmentâ€"detailing the evolution and impact of Medicaid managed care. Key issues highlighted in four populationsâ€"children with special needs, people with serious mental illness, people with HIV/AIDS, and the homeless.

Solving America's Healthcare Crisis

Author : Pamela A. Popper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983608301
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Solving America's Healthcare Crisis written by Pamela A. Popper and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Long Fix

Author : Vivian Lee
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393867447
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book The Long Fix written by Vivian Lee and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may not be a quick fix, but this concrete action plan for reform can create a less costly and healthier system for all. Beyond the outrageous expense, the quality of care varies wildly, and millions of Americans can’t get care when they need it. This is bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for business. In The Long Fix, physician and health care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who’s paying, it’s what we are paying for. Insurers, employers, the government, and individuals pay for every procedure, prescription, and lab test, whether or not it makes us better—and that is both backward and dangerous. Dr. Lee proposes turning the way we receive care completely inside out. When doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are paid to keep people healthy, care improves and costs decrease. Lee shares inspiring examples of how this has been done, from physicians’ practices that prioritize preventative care, to hospitals that adapt lessons from manufacturing plants to make them safer, to health care organizations that share online how much care costs and how well each physician is caring for patients. Using clear and compelling language, Dr. Lee paints a picture that is both realistic and optimistic. It may not be a quick fix, but her concrete action plan for reform—for employers and other payers, patients, clinicians, and policy makers—can reinvent health care, and create a less costly, more efficient, and healthier system for all.

Confronting America's Health Care Crisis

Author : Anne Boston Parish
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434360164
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Confronting America's Health Care Crisis written by Anne Boston Parish and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 47 million people in America do not have health insurance. Why though America is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, do so many Americans not receive health care and why can't all Americans afford medical insurance? Who are the medically uninsured and how do you build a community clinic without the funding of local, state or federal governments?

Health Policy

Author : Charlene Harrington
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0763746576
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Health Policy written by Charlene Harrington and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Edition of this best-selling health policy text is updated with a collection of new articles on various health policies. Health Policy provides a basic overview of the health policy and political process as it relates to thte health status of the US, the organization and issues of the healthcare system, and healthcare economics.

Healing

Author : Thomas Insel, MD
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593298047
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Healing written by Thomas Insel, MD and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, expert, and actionable map for the re-invention of America’s broken mental health care system. “Healing is truly one of the best books ever written about mental illness, and I think I’ve read them all." —Pete Earley, author of Crazy As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel was giving a presentation when the father of a boy with schizophrenia yelled from the back of the room, “Our house is on fire and you’re telling me about the chemistry of the paint! What are you doing to put out the fire?” Dr. Insel knew in his heart that the answer was not nearly enough. The gargantuan American mental health industry was not healing millions who were desperately in need. He left his position atop the mental health research world to investigate all that was broken—and what a better path to mental health might look like. In the United States, we have treatments that work, but our system fails at every stage to deliver care well. Even before COVID, mental illness was claiming a life every eleven minutes by suicide. Quality of care varies widely, and much of the field lacks accountability. We focus on drug therapies for symptom reduction rather than on plans for long-term recovery. Care is often unaffordable and unavailable, particularly for those who need it most and are homeless or incarcerated. Where was the justice for the millions of Americans suffering from mental illness? Who was helping their families? But Dr. Insel also found that we do have approaches that work, both in the U.S. and globally. Mental illnesses are medical problems, but he discovers that the cures for the crisis are not just medical, but social. This path to healing, built upon what he calls the three Ps (people, place, and purpose), is more straightforward than we might imagine. Dr. Insel offers a comprehensive plan for our failing system and for families trying to discern the way forward. The fruit of a lifetime of expertise and a global quest for answers, Healing is a hopeful, actionable account and achievable vision for us all in this time of mental health crisis.

Healthcare for All Americans

Author : Nelson Paguyo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640458673
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Healthcare for All Americans written by Nelson Paguyo and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This extremely well-written and easy-to-read treatise on the state of healthcare in the US and the author's proposed solutions is sure to garner much-deserved attention." -JACOB CLEVELAND, LULU PUBLISHING, INC. "Paguyo offers a solution for America's woes in a system of universal healthcare. A close study of the pros and cons of systems in Canada, England, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan reveals positive options that America can put together to form a greatly improved system for ensuring that sick people get treated properly. Tactics for implementing this new system are also discussed, in this thoughtful, well reasoned proposal for a solid solution to America's healthcare problems." -MICHAEL J. CARSON, THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW HEALTHCARE FOR ALL AMERICANS - Proposes ideal healthcare that is universal, portable, user-friendly, simple to administer, worry-free and reliable; affordable and sustainable; based on FREE MARKET principles applicable and adaptable for others countries; - Is a comparative study of the seven well known national healthcare schemes Canada, England, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland; - Is an examination of the thirteen major U.S. healthcare problems; - Is an analysis how U.S. healthcare impacts the American people, U.S. economy, and America's global competitiveness; - Is an advocacy to dismantle and completely reconstruct from start the U.S.A. healthcare system in its present form; - Is a historical review of the U.S. healthcare system from post-World War II to the present.