Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System
eBook - PDF

Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System

Why Comprehensive Reform Is Needed

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System

Why Comprehensive Reform Is Needed

About this book

Shock Therapy For the American Health Care System describes the problems of the health care system and offers a program of comprehensive reform that is more far-reaching than anything currently being proposed. From a veteran physician comes this remarkably clear-eyed look at what's wrong with how we adminster and pay for health care and what can be done to fix it. In Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System: Why Comprehensive Reform Is Needed, Dr. Robert Levine offers an easily understandable diagnosis of the problems plaguing our current health care infrastructure, with discussions that include the roles of various stakeholders—insurance companies, "big pharma, " hospitals, health care providers, and patients. He also dispels a number of myths designed to make voters leery of any reform efforts. Levine's comprehensive plan addresses everything from bloated bureaucracies to unnecessary procedures to the handling of negligence and malpractice lawsuits/claims. Throughout, Levine backs his proposals with facts and comparisons to systems in various countries, and concludes that even now, with disaster looming, the ultimate goal of providing health insurance for every American is achievable and affordable.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780313380686
eBook ISBN
9780313380693
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Public Health, Administration & Care

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Addressing the Myths about Health Care Reform
  8. CHAPTER 2 Evolution of the American Health Care System: The Changing Physician, Organized Medicine, and Efforts at Health Care Reform
  9. CHAPTER 3 Evolution of the American Health Care System: Hospitals, the Health Insurance Industry, the Pharmaceutical Industry, and the Medical Device Industry
  10. CHAPTER 4 Problems with the Current Health Care System
  11. CHAPTER 5 Malpractice and Medical Negligence
  12. CHAPTER 6 Comprehensive Health Care Reform
  13. CHAPTER 7 Proposals for U.S. Health Care Reform and a Brief Survey of Other Nations' Health Care Systems
  14. CHAPTER 8 Obstacles to Comprehensive Reform
  15. CHAPTER 9 Conclusion
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. About the Author