Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307961540 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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His book sprouted from a 2009 article he penned for the Atlantic. His alternative to the status quo combines national health insurance (for everyone but not everything) with a market-based system that gets rid of intermediaries and allows individuals to deal directly with providers. --Tony Miksanek . health-care system. Goldhill thinks it’s time to rip off the colossal Band-Aid and apply a different kind of balm. Individual health accounts, catastrophic insurance with a high deductible, and health loans are key
few books have so dramatically changed my mind By profession, I think and talk about health care quite a bit. Sure, it's insanely expensive; sure, it's dangerous; sure, it's appallingly inaccessible, even to people with money and time to spend trying to figure out out. But until I read this book, it didn't occur to me to question the underlying principle of our health system--namely, that insurers of various kinds (private companies, government agencies) are naturally and necessarily interposed between human beings and medical care. This book exposed that principle as a historical accident -- and the health system it sustains as a perfect machine for producing huma. Ilya Valkovsky said The word is out - 'the Emperor (health care debate) has no clothes'. Written for a general (but thinking) audience, this book could really turn around all public discourse on health care and become a seminal work on the subject.The divisive health care debate of recent years is centered over WHO should shoulder astronomic medical costs. The issue of taming the exorbitant prices and costs is relegated to the side issue of waste and abuse. David Goldhill takes a new and different approach. He puts aside the standard assumption that health care is somehow exempt from the normal rules of economic activity. He focuses on WHY the costs became so exorbitant in the first place. Goldhill shows p. Catastrophic Care-How American Health Care Killed My Father Amazon Customer Catastrophic Care - How American Health Care Killed MY Father - And How we can Fix ItByDavid GoldhillInfections from a hospital stay killed David Goldhill's father in 2007, one of more than 200,000 deaths annually caused by medical error. The medical bill was huge and fully paid by Medicare. David wanted to know why it happened and why a business was paid after such a colossal error. This would not happen in a market driven business. This book is the result of Mr. Goldhill's quest for answers.The major premise of Mr. Goldhill's book is that the patient is not the customer. The actual customers are what he calls "surrog
Contrasting the Island of health care with the Mainland of our economy, he demonstrates that high costs, excess medicine, terrible service, and medical error are the inevitable consequences of our insurance-based system. The bill was enormous—and Medicare paid it. These circumstances left Goldhill angry and determined to understand how world-class technology and personnel could coexist with such carelessness—and how a business that failed so miserably could be paid in full. He explains why policy efforts to fix these problems have invariably produced perverse results, and how the new Affordable Care Act is more likely to deepen than to solve these issues. Catastrophic Care is the eye-opening result.Blending personal anecdotes and extensive research, Goldhill presents us with cogent, biting analysis that challenges the basic preconceptions that have shaped our thinking for decades. Above all it is a book of new ideas that can transform the way we understand a subject we often take for granted..
cable television network seen in more than 75 million homes and is one of the world’s largest digital games companies. He is a member of the board of directors of The Leapfrog Group, an employer-sponsored organization dedicated to hospital safety and transparency. David Goldhill is president and chief executive officer of GSN, which operates a U.S. Goldhill graduated from Harvard University with a BA in history and holds