A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care A plan for universal coverage serving patients over profit - Hardcover

Relman, Arnold

 
9781586484811: A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care A plan for universal coverage serving patients over profit
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1586484818 ISBN 13: 9781586484811
Verlag: PublicAffairs, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The U.S. healthcare system is failing. It is run like a business, increasingly focused on generating income for insurers and providers rather than providing care for patients. It is supported by investors and private markets seeking to grow revenue and resist regulation, thus contributing to higher costs and lessened public accountability. Meanwhile, forty-six million Americans are without insurance. Health care expenditures are rising at a rate of 7 percent a year, three times the rate of inflation.

Dr. Arnold Relman is one of the most respected physicians and healthcare advocates in our country. This book, based on sixty years' experience in medicine, is a clarion call not just to politicians and patients but to the medical profession to evolve a new structure for healthcare, based on voluntary private contracts between individuals and not-for-profit, multi-specialty groups of physicians. Physicians would be paid mainly by salaries and would submit no bills for their services. All health care facilities would be not-for-profit. The savings from reduced administrative overhead and the elimination of billing fraud would be enormous. Healthcare may be our greatest national problem, but the provocative, sensible arguments in this book will provide a catalyst for change.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Arnold S. Relman is Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and the former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. He received his M.D. from Columbia University in 1946, and has taught at distinguished medical schools including Boston University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. He was appointed by The White House to serve on the Health Professionals Review Group and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to serve on the Board of Registration in Medicine. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Verlag
PublicAffairs
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1586484818
ISBN 13 
9781586484811
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Auflage
1
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224
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