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The Demise of Our Healthcare

Author : Rachot Vacharothone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615855813
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book The Demise of Our Healthcare written by Rachot Vacharothone and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our nation's healthcare system is unsustainable and headed for collapse. Obamacare has several important key features, but it alone can't save our healthcare system. Congress and health insurance companies can't save it. It's up to you and your doctor. It's high time that we return to the good ol' days where you know your family doctor and he knows you. He doesn't charge an arm and a leg for a checkup or stitches or any of the many basic care services that help keep our families healthy and out of expensive hospitals. It's happening right now-you'll find the beginning of a healthcare revolution in small clinics from coast to coast. Average Americans, doctors and their patients, are organizing to take back control of their healthcare and they don't need anyone's permission to do it. It's about preserving our choice, our individual responsibility, our sense of community, and our tradition of free-enterprise healthcare. This book uses plain language to explain the problems that threaten our healthcare system, the root cause, and how you and your family can pay far less for healthcare, live healthier lives, and participate in the healthcare revolution that will turn our healthcare crisis around. At the end of the day, this revolution will: reestablish doctor-patient relationship across the nation; free doctors from third party control; reduce healthcare costs for patients; allow health insurance funds to be used more appropriately; and ultimately prevent health insurance premiums from rising.

The Death of American Healthcare

Author : Mike Carberry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781093471472
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book The Death of American Healthcare written by Mike Carberry and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why Americans are so sick? Why we spend so much money yet never seem to get healthier? Are there special interests out there that are stopping us from achieving true health? And what can be done about healthcare to bring about true health? Read this book to find out.

Our Healthcare Delivery System Is About to Collapse

Author : Lindsay L. Pratt M.D.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546260277
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)

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Book Synopsis Our Healthcare Delivery System Is About to Collapse by : Lindsay L. Pratt M.D.

Download or read book Our Healthcare Delivery System Is About to Collapse written by Lindsay L. Pratt M.D. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses health care’s problems, why health care’s costs will become unsustainable, and why there will be a physician shortage within a year. A delivery system is proposed to avoid both unsustainable costs and the physician shortage.

Brave New World of Healthcare Revisited

Author : Richard D. Lamm
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 155591862X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Brave New World of Healthcare Revisited written by Richard D. Lamm and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informed and erudite look at the current state of the American healthcare system from former Governor Richard D. Lamm and political economist Andy Sharma, including: Will the retirement of the Baby Boomer generation bankrupt our healthcare services? What does the impending healthcare reform mean for the nation? Does the US still have the best healthcare system in the world?

The Case for Alternative Healthcare

Author : Thomas Ockler P.T.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1434318850
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Alternative Healthcare written by Thomas Ockler P.T. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is written by an insider. A hospital administrator and practitioner who participated firsthand in laying the foundation for today's collapsing heath care system. A practitioner who then went on to make radical changes in the way he practiced his profession and his philosophy of health care delivery. A practitioner who is now hell-bent on making radical changes in this disastrous health care system he helped to create 30 years ago. This book is an insider's look at the sequence of events and decisions that led to the demise of our health care system. This book is designed to educate you to:

We All Die Once

Author : Larry Kessler
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781480044265
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book We All Die Once written by Larry Kessler and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We All Die Once" is a riveting account of the past, present, and future of American medicine. From prenatal care to the end of life, this book uses history, analysis, and dramatic personal experiences to illustrate every major controversy in the healthcare fight. Starting with the emergency room, it guides readers through the modern hospital, examining individual cases to show larger truths. It chronicles lives saved, lives lost, and lives caught in the twilight world between the two. It shows how modern medicine is shaped by an anarchic array of forces, each with its own source, focus, and interests. Readers will learn how insurance, law, and DTC advertising have shaped our medical experience. They will see how technology combines with culture to create the false notion of a zero failure rate. Medical malpractice, regulatory boards, and excess testing are vividly described in stories showing real life consequences. Thorough description and argument are fine, but the true value of "We All Die Once? is in its solutions. All the firsthand accounts, arguments and history follow a logical course to proposals of sane, rational measures that balance imperfections with ideals. This isn't a panacea, nor is it stuck in socialistic or libertarian philosophies. It's a pragmatic way for healthcare to benefit from free market competition, allowing most of us to pay affordable prices for humane and personalized service. It retains a role for government in healthcare for the poor and needy, and returns insurance to its proper role of backup against catastrophe. It outlines roles for law and media which would protect both doctors and patients, while providing patients with accurate, objective information in an atmosphere free of high-pressure promotions. Recent healthcare bestsellers are narrowly-focused arguments about a single subject. Books like Betsy McCaughey's "Decoding the Obama Health Law: What You Need To Know," and "Why Obamacare Is Wrong for America" by Grace-Marie Turner et al, show their limitations in their titles and introductions. They are for or against one thing: the healthcare law of 2011. "We All Die Once" sees Obamacare as simply one more stage in the disintegration of American medicine. It looks at the whole field, from insurance to practice, from birth to death. It examines what we want medicine to be, and how we can work toward that goal. In the process it explodes many myths, and exposes extremists on all sides to harsh reality. Tea Party enthusiasts and supporters of Occupy Wall Street will love and hate this book, each for their own reasons. Legislators and policymakers will find a comprehensive tool with a complete program that avoids rigid doctrines. "We All Die Once" takes the impossible quandaries of healthcare, and subjects them to the art of the possible. Readers with an interest in medicine, economics, or public policy will find it's impossible to put this book down.

Healthcare's Demise to

Author : Lindsay Pratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736002803
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Healthcare's Demise to written by Lindsay Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses health care's problems, why health care's costs will become unsustainable, and why there will be a physician shortage within a year. A delivery system is proposed to avoid both unsustainable costs and the physician shortage. I am a 94 year old retired physician, and although my writing skills are not the best, I have discussed why there will be unsustainable healthcare costs within the next decade, and why unfriendly physician regulations and policies are creating a physician shortage. Both will collapse our healthcare delivery system. My hope is this book alerts the public to both, and it alerts the public to a healthcare delivery system capable of avoiding both the unsustainable healthcare costs and the physician shortage.

Uninsured in America

Author : Susan Starr Sered
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520244427
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Uninsured in America written by Susan Starr Sered and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-04-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors paint a devastating portrait of the decline of health care in thecountry, told through the stories of various people's lives.

Saving Private Healthcare

Author : Michael Kalthoff
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625104006
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Saving Private Healthcare written by Michael Kalthoff and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. healthcare system will financially collapse in three to five years if we stay on our current path. Millions will lose their health insurance, thousands of doctors will leave medicine, wait times for medical care will dramatically increase, and quality of care will plummet. Saving Private Healthcare calls out the many problems in healthcare, including the new Obamacare law, then offers a pure, open-market, commonsense, and complete re-design of all sectors of our healthcare system with a sweeping new approach called The Saving Private Healthcare Initiative. "The Initiative" is both a powerful and easy-to-understand plan combined with a large organization of both private citizens and healthcare experts who will bring down healthcare costs by two-thirds or $2 trillion per year by 2022. We must have a complete solution to our healthcare crisis, a well-constructed implementation plan, as well as an open-market, energized movement to actually make it happen.Welcome to Saving Private Healthcare. "If there was ever a book for today, this is it. As well-intentioned lead-ers wrestle self-interest groups over health reform, this book offers commonsense direction and comprehensive guidelines on how we as a nation can dramatically lower healthcare costs without reducing everyone's access to high quality healthcare." - Ilene Little, CEO, Traveling4Health.com "This is the kind of out-of-the-box, innovative thinking that we need to restore affordability to our healthcare system using open-market, non-governmental solutions." - Dr. Alieta Eck, president, Association of American Physicians and Surgeons"

Dying and Living in the Neighborhood

Author : Prabhjot Singh
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421420449
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Dying and Living in the Neighborhood written by Prabhjot Singh and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have neighborhoods been left out of the seismic healthcare reform efforts to connect struggling Americans with the help they need? Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances that make it difficult for struggling men, women, and children to live healthier lives. In Dying and Living in the Neighborhood, Dr. Prabhjot Singh argues that we must look beyond the walls of the hospital and into the neighborhoods where patients live and die to address the troubling rise in chronic disease. Building on his training as a physician in Harlem, Dr. Singh draws from research in sociology and economics to look at how our healthcare systems are designed and how the development of technologies like the Internet enable us to rethink strategies for assembling healthier neighborhoods. In part I, Singh presents the story of Ray, a patient whose death illuminated how he had lived, his neighborhood context, and the forces that accelerated his decline. In part II, Singh introduces nationally recognized pioneers who are acting on the local level to build critical components of a neighborhood-based health system. In the process, he encounters a movement of people and organizations with similar visions of a porous, neighborhood-embedded healthcare system. Finally, in part III he explores how civic technologies may help forge a new set of relationships among healthcare, public health, and community development. Every rising public health leader, frontline clinician, and policymaker in the country should read this book to better understand how they can contribute to a more integrated and supportive healthcare system.

The Health of the Nation

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906837785
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book The Health of the Nation written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Demise of Medicine

Author : Andrew Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781628548495
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book The Demise of Medicine written by Andrew Morton and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family physician comments on the deterioration of the American health care system.

And a Time to Die

Author : Sharon Kaufman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743282523
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book And a Time to Die written by Sharon Kaufman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans, when pressed, have a vague sense of how they would like to die. They may imagine a quick and painless end or a gentle passing away during sleep. Some may wish for time to prepare and make peace with themselves, their friends, and their families. Others would prefer not to know what's coming, a swift, clean break. Yet all fear that the reality will be painful and prolonged; all fear the loss of control that could accompany dying. That fear is justified. It is also historically unprecedented. In the past thirty years, the advent of medical technology capable of sustaining life without restoring health, the expectation that a critically ill person need not die, and the conviction that medicine should routinely thwart death have significantly changed where, when, and how Americans die and put us all in the position of doing something about death. In a penetrating and revelatory study, medical anthropologist Sharon R. Kaufman examines the powerful center of those changes -- the hospital, where most Americans die today. In the hospital world, the deep, irresolvable tension between the urge to extend life at all costs and the desire to allow "letting go" is rarely acknowledged, yet it underlies everything that happens there among patients, families, and health professionals. Over the course of two years, Kaufman observed and interviewed critically ill patients, their families, doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff at three community hospitals. In...And a Time to Die, her research places us at the heart of that science-driven yet fractured and often irrational world of health care delivery, where empathetic yet frustrated, hard-working yet constrained professionals both respond to and create the anxieties and often inchoate expectations of patients and families, who must make "decisions" they are ill-prepared to make. Filled with actual conversations between patients and doctors, families and hospital staff,...And a Time to Die clearly and carefully exposes the reasons for complicated questions about medical care at the end of life: for example, why "heroic" treatment so often overrides "humane" care; why patients and families are ambivalent about choosing death though they claim to want control; what constitutes quality of life and life itself; and, ultimately, why a "good" death is so elusive. In elegant, compelling prose, Kaufman links the experiences of patients and families, the work of hospital staff, and the ramifications of institutional bureaucracy to show the invisible power of the hospital system itself -- its rules, mandates, and daily activity -- in shaping death and our individual experience of it. ...And a Time to Die is a provocative, illuminating, and necessary read for anyone working in or navigating the health care system today, providing a much-needed road map to the disorienting territory of the hospital, where we all are asked to make life-and-death choices.

American Healthcare Reform

Author : Earl Wilson Ferguson, MD, PhD
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1491843152
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book American Healthcare Reform written by Earl Wilson Ferguson, MD, PhD and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaningful healthcare reform requires understanding of our complex healthcare system. This book was written to help clarify the difficult and poorly understood issues and problems of American healthcare. Its purpose is to help us move forward on the many difficult decisions that should be made to improve our healthcare system. Our unique combination of public-private funding and free-market capitalism system has been a major source of medical care advancements over the last half-century. The entrepreneurial spirit of risk takers who have invested billions of dollars to push forward innovative ideas and products has been key to its success. We should not lose that driving force for medical advancements and our economy. Our American healthcare system needs reform. We should fix it rationally with a scalpel, not destroy it with a meat cleaver. To optimize and appropriately guide that reform, we should first understand and concentrate on the real problems. Primarily we should fix our healthcare system by decreasing its administrative complexity and inefficiencies. The Affordable Care Act should be modified significantly to make it more acceptable as part of our national effort for more meaningful reform. Rational solutions through political compromises are not easy to find in our highly polarized political environment. It will be a long uphill climb, but it is a challenge that we must meet for our uniquely American healthcare system to survive.

The Healthcare Collapse

Author : Eldo Frezza
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429015771
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Healthcare Collapse written by Eldo Frezza and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the healthcare system in the U.S. has seen numerous changes in the last 30 years where fee-for-service was the mainstay of reimbursement models and hospitals were managed by physicians and patient care was key. The early 1990’s saw the emergence of HMOs and other managed care models with physicians handing over leadership roles to corporate entities whose main concern was the bottom line and profitability while patient care and satisfaction suffered. The Healthcare Collapse: Where We’ve been and Where We Need to Go explores the low morale of physicians in this corporate healthcare culture as well as the expansion of hospitals owned by corporations. The author focuses on recovering healthcare morals and return value to the individuals who provide active care and not just business. This book also examines the possible repercussions of Medicare and Medicaid while address the question of single payer healthcare. This book looks at where healthcare has been, what has worked and what hasn’t, and recommends solutions to create a system that focuses on the patient and providing quality care in this age of reimbursement cuts, demands for better technology and providing a safer environment for both the patient and clinicians who work in hospitals. The author also advocates for a shift in management and recommends hospitals leaders engage physicians and other clinicians in process improvement and other initiatives which can result in a more efficient system – one where quality patient care dominant. The book also outlines programs which can be championed by hospitals such as patient engagement activities, community health and other outreach and education programs.

Killer Care

Author : James B. Lieber
Publisher : OR Books
ISBN 13 : 0984295097
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Killer Care written by James B. Lieber and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A succinct, disturbing report on the prevalence of malpractice in modern medicine. ….An imperative analysis that begs for discussion by industry watchdogs and consumers alike.” —Kirkus Reviews “Brilliant...scholarly. A reading of Killer Care makes an immediate personal investment in our own safer patient-centered care logical and worthwhile. ...Killer Care is strongly advised.” —T. Michael White, M.D., former VP and clinical professor of medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; author, Unsafe to Safe “In Killer Care, James Lieber uncovers systemic failures and lack of safeguards in patient safety. His wake-up call not only informs, but provides specific and actionable recommendations for patients and their families. His analysis also points to system fixes that will make being a patient safer for all of us.” —Barbara Mittleman, M.D.; former director, Program on Private-Public Partnerships, Office of Science Policy, National institutes of Health (2006-2012) Each year in the U.S., a quarter of a million deaths are attributable to medical error. If the number shocks, on some level you already knew it was so. Everyone knows someone—perhaps it was yourself—who has suffered miserable treatment in American hospitals, part of the most elaborate, most extensive and expensive health care system in the world. But it is perhaps the most inefficient. Misdiagnoses, wrong prescriptions, operating on the wrong patient, even operating on the wrong limb (and amputating it): these are the consequences of rampant carelessness, overwork, ignorance, and hospitals trying to get the most out of their caregivers and the most money out of their patients. What are we to do? Killer Care lays out the very real danger each of us faces whenever we enter a hospital. But more than that, it spells out what we can do to mitigate that risk. The book is also the story of the remarkable heroes fighting this plague of medical errors—patients and their families, but also doctors and nurses. Starting about twenty years ago, a number of victims and even some perpetrators of these errors began a social movement that offers us vital protections when we are most vulnerable: they have begun a cultural shift that is transforming every facet of health care.

The Best Care Possible

Author : Ira Byock
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1583335129
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book The Best Care Possible written by Ira Byock and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial social issues of our time. It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Though the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home—which hospice care provides—many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a healthcare system ruled by high-tech procedures and a philosophy to “fight disease and illness at all cost.” Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in the country, argues that how we die represents a national crisis today. To ensure the best possible elder care, Dr. Byock explains we must not only remake our healthcare system but also move beyond our cultural aversion to thinking about death. The Best Care Possible is a compelling meditation on medicine and ethics told through page-turning life-or-death medical drama. It has the power to lead a new national conversation.