America's Health Care Revolution: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Pays

America's Health Care Revolution; Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Pays

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. x, [2], 241 pages. Note on Sources. Index. Slight wear to DJ edges. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Pat Leahy-- With highest regard for a special Senator Joe Califano. The author looks to the private sector to lead the U.S. from a sick care system to a more efficient health care system. Joseph Anthony Califano Jr. (born May 15, 1931) is an American attorney, professor, and public servant. He is known for the roles he played in shaping welfare policies in the cabinets of Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Jimmy Carter and for serving as United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the Carter administration. He is also the founder and chairman of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia), an evidence-based research organization, which is now the Partnership to End Addiction, where Califano holds the title of Chair Emeritus. He has been an adjunct professor of public health at Columbia University Medical School (Department of Psychiatry) and School of Public Health and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Vermont from 1975 to 2023, and also served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2012 to 2015 and from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee at various points during his 48-year tenure. Leahy is the third-longest-serving U.S. senator in history. After Leahy retired from the Senate in 2023, Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that Burlington International Airport would be renamed for Leahy. Leahy expressed gratitude following the announcement, saying, "I am gratified that the airport where I took my first flight as a teenager is now well-positioned for Vermont's future. Derived from a Kirkus review: An indictment of America's current health-care system by the former HEW Secretary. Califano, after his stint in Washington, discovered what Lyndon Banes Johnson had wrought with the liberalization of health-care programs under the Great Society. On the other side of the fence separating government and Corporate America, he was educated by Lee Iacocca on how health-care rip-offs and concessions to unions in this area were gradually killing Chrysler Corp. The consumer was getting squeezed from both ends--faced with mounting medical costs, and higher stickers for cheaply made cars. And this was mirroring a problem facing business as a whole. Califano's "revolution," however, is a prescription for the future. Califano nevertheless says that the first step is to replace the current "sick-care system" with preventive health-care, kindled by doctors, and stoked by individuals looking out for themselves. As an example, he cites how life-style changes--e.g., less red meat, fewer cigarettes--had reduced coronary disease deaths 25% in only 15 years. Imploring American businesses large and small to set up opportunities for exercise for their employees, he further recommends that schools declare themselves smoke-free zones. All enclosed public places would also become forbidden zones for cigarettes. This "new social compact" might be as much dreaming as some of the programs that contributed to the problem in the first place. But if it tickles a few movers' and shakers' sensitivities with its thoughtful exposition, a first step might be made toward a saner health-care system. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Artikel-Nr. 85986

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