The Cure That Works

How to Have the World's Best Health Care -- at a Quarter of the Price

Sean Masaki Flynn

• Publisher: Regnery
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9781621579625
• Subtopic: Insurance
• Index: Politics & International Relations

What's the Most Important Fact About the Heathcare Crisis? That We Already Know the Cure! Whole Foods Markets, the State of Indiana, and innovators around the world have used forgotten American ideas to slash healthcare costs by 75 percent while simultaneously delivering true universal access, coverage for preexisting conditions, and an ironclad safety net. Economics for Dummies authorSeanFlynnexplains that simple things—like price tags, competition, and plentiful health savings contributions—crush costs while granting everyone equal access to the world's best healthcare services.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Cabbie’s Tale
• Chapter 2: Singapore Past and Present
• Chapter 3: Singapore’s Healthcare Supremacy
• Chapter 4: America’s Healthcare Humiliation in an International Perspective
• Chapter 5: What We Could Do If We Copied Singapore
• Chapter 6: Why Is the US Healthcare System Doing So Badly?
• Chapter 7: Provoking Profligacy with Low Out-of-Pocket Costs
• Chapter 8: How “Single-Payer” Systems Spend Less Than We Do
• Chapter 9: Empowering Prudence with First-Party Payments
• Chapter 10: The Origins of America’s Employment-Based Health Insurance System
• Chapter 11: How to Engineer Low-Cost Health Insurance
• Chapter 12: Visiting Singapore’s Hospitals and Clinics
• Chapter 13: MediSave and the Miraculous 3Ms
• Chapter 14: MediShield and the Right Incentives
• Chapter 15: MediShield Encourages Participation and Fairness with Age-Rated Insurance
• Chapter 16: MediFund and Direct Subsidies: Singapore’s Amazing Healthcare Safety Net
• Chapter 17: Singapore’s Multiple Ward Classes: Healthcare, Not Hotels
• Chapter 18: Pharmaceuticals in Singapore
• Chapter 19: The 3Ms Dominate Incentives, Not Payments
• Chapter 20: MediShield Life and the Future of Singapore’s Healthcare System
• Chapter 21: The State of Indiana's Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plan
• Chapter 22: RAND and Oregon: Slashing Spending without Hurting Health
• Chapter 23: Why Healthcare Spending Can Decline without Hurting Health Outcomes
• Chapter 24: P, Q, and Big Savings for You
• Chapter 25: You Have to Fund People’s HSAs for Them
• Chapter 26: We Must Rescue the Poor from Medicaid
• Chapter 27: Visiting the Free Market Medical Association
• Chapter 28: My Proposal for Reforming the US Healthcare System
• Chapter 29: Help Defeat the Special Interests
• Appendix I: Why Doesn’t Anybody Know about Singapore’s Healthcare System?
• Appendix II: Reductions in Government Healthcare Spending under Singapore’s System of Healthcare Financing
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Notes
• Copyright