Stop! You have found it! This is the one. Your search for the answer to Healthcare Reform is over. This book is the one to read. Why? It is unique, concise, an easy read, informative, educational, and not bogged down by extra bulky text that only serves to thicken the book and confuse the reader. It doesn't waste your time with meaningless or superficial material. This book is written by a Board-Certified Physician specializing in Internal Medicine with many years of experience, an impeccable record, an analytical mind, and a lot of common sense. Instead of wasting time discussing the secondary and peripheral features of the chaotic ways of the Healthcare system, this "Insider" strips away the "nonsense" and simply educates the reader about the few "core issues" that are the REAL causes of the Healthcare mess. Only an insider of this caliber knows the "real deal". His insight is astounding. This quick read gets right to the point. After you are done reading this book, you are guaranteed to know all you need to know to understand the problem. It really is quite simple. You will be amazed! This book discusses the vital issues that you need and want to know. Will you be able to continue seeing a REAL physician or will the Primary Care Physician become extinct? How did our Healthcare delivery system evolve to such disarray? Who are the actual culprits behind the determination of what really goes on? Where do the Lawyers and Insurance companies fit into this equation? You'll be surprised! How much control over your healthcare treatment does your Primary Care Provider really have? What is going on behind the scenes? What should the public's role and responsibility be to help society get out of the mess?

Howard Dean-the physician and former governor widely credited with reviving the Democratic Party after the 2004 elections-brings his unique, no-nonsense perspective to the healthcare debate. At a time when healthcare reform finally is within reach, Howard Dean's Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform is a riveting call to action that explains both the obstacles to reform and what it will take to achieve real healthcare reform.

The United States spends more money on health care by far than anyother country and yet nearly 50,000,000 Americans are uninsured atleast part of the time each year. Health Care Reform Now! is written for anyone who caresenough about our health care situation to consider seriousalternatives to the current system. In this book George Halvorson—an internationally knownhealth care leader and author—offers a sensible approach tohealth care reform and universal coverage that can work for allstakeholders. Step by step, George Halvorson outlines a game plan for a trulyworld-class health care system that will appeal to policy makers onboth ends of the political spectrum and will deliver health carewith improved quality, better access, provider accountability,performance transparency, consumer choice, and individualempowerment.

A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . . Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator’s Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable. Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system with two pioneers in the field—Dr. Jerome Grossman and Dr. Jason Hwang. Together, they examine a range of symptoms and offer proven solutions. YOU’LL DISCOVER HOW “Precision medicine” reduces costs and makes good on the promise of personalized care Disruptive business models improve quality, accessibility, and affordability by changing the way hospitals and doctors work Patient networks enable better treatment of chronic diseases Employers can change the roles they play in health care to compete effectively in the era of globalization Insurance and regulatory reforms stimulate disruption in health care

In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed knowledge of the issues. Tracing health-care reform from its beginnings to its current uncertain prospects, Paul Starr argues that the United States ensnared itself in a trap through policies that satisfied enough of the public and so enriched the health-care industry as to make the system difficult to change. He reveals the inside story of the rise and fall of the Clinton health plan in the early 1990sùand of the Gingrich counterrevolution that followed. And he explains the curious tale of how Mitt RomneyÆs reforms in Massachusetts became a model for Democrats and then follows both the passage of those reforms under Obama and the explosive reaction they elicited from conservatives. Writing concisely and with an even hand, the author offers exactly what is needed as the debate continuesùa penetrating account of how health care became such treacherous terrain in American politics.

Pharmacotherapy, as a means of treating drug addiction in combination with other treatment modalities, has received too little attention from the research community, the pharmaceutical industry, public health officials, and the federal government. Medications to combat drug addiction could have an enormous impact on the medical consequences and socioeconomic problems associated with drug abuse, both for drug-dependent individuals and for American society as a whole. This book examines the current environment for and obstacles to the development of anti-addiction medications, specifically those for treating opiate and cocaine addictions, and proposes incentives for the pharmaceutical industry that would help overcome those obstacles and accelerate the development of anti-addiction medications.

This fact book discusses the current state of affairs, including what the authors believe is one of the biggest problems -- the shared responsibility between the states and the federal government for providing services.