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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 353 EAN: 9780979697906 Edition: 1 ISBN: 0979697905 Label: Publish or Perish DBS Manufacturer: Publish or Perish DBS Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: October 01, 2007 Publisher: Publish or Perish DBS Studio: Publish or Perish DBS Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Richard N. Fogoros, MD, the popular DrRich of heartdisease.about.com, wants to fix the American healthcare system with your help. In Fixing American Healthcare, you'll learn about: *** Wonkonians, who want to regulate our way out of the mess we're in - and why that cannot work *** Gekkonians, who think the solution to our problems lies in maximizing profits - and why that cannot work *** the Grand Unification Theory of Healthcare and how we can use it to analyze any proposed solution and compare it with all other systems - simply and rationally. IF you care about protecting yourself and your loved ones when you need healthcare. . . IF you want to work toward fixing the American healthcare system so it works for everyone. . . IF you are a healthcare worker, a patient, a politician, an entrepreneur, an economist. . .IF you are left of center, right of center, or smack in the middle. . . STOP what you're doing and READ THIS BOOK. Find out how you can fight for the healthcare you need, and at the same time FIX AMERICAN HEALTHCARE for everyone. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Everyone has the power to help improve America's healthcareWe all know we're facing many challenges in our health care system. Certainly at a national level, we need solutions to deal with the fact that there are 50 million uninsured people in America. But individually, many of us access our health care through a less-than-perfect system of health insurance and HMOs. And we are up against a challenge that is coming to be known as "covert rationing" -- a term coined Fixing American Healthcare's author Dr. Richard Fogoros, MD -- known as "DrRich." ... Read More Rating: - Thought provokingDr. Fogoros foregoes the usual cliches seen in proposing health care fixes. His analysis of our current system, including how we got here, is very insightful, and rings true to someone working in healthcare. American healthcare is very complex and won't be fixed in a sweeping reform, especially by the government, so it is difficult to propose changes in a scientific way, but he backs up his proposals with sufficient anecdotes and facts to make them plausible. A must read for someone interested in the future ... Read More Rating:  - On target, but simplisticDr. Fogoros overarching message, that rationing exists already and must be openly addressed by any reform proposal is dead-on. When demand exceeds supply, as any high-school economics student will tell you, rationing occurs. Beyond that, however, I found little else compelling in his treatise for reform. Much of what was presented was presented without reference or support. More could have been done to develop his position had he provided historical perspective, point and counterpoint arguments, ... Read More Rating: - Should be on the reading list for all doctors, patients, health care reformersDr. Fogoros goes where few other authors on health care reform/transformation can go. He does an extraordinary job taking us inside the health care system and exposes many frightening truths: *We ration care, we just don't call it that *Doctors have been strong armed into putting the interests of employers, insurance companies and the government ahead of patient interests *Money talks and when your insurer is a for-profit company they are obligated to make the highest profits possible and ... Read More Rating: - A practical approach to achievable, equitable and effective health careReviewed by Richard R. Blake for Reader Views (11/07) In "Fixing American Healthcare" Dr. Richard N. Fogoros provides important insight into the truth about American healthcare. Part I of the book provides a quick overview of grand unification theory of health care (GUTH), a conceptual model that describes the universe of possible healthcare systems. Part II applies the GUTH in an analysis of the current American healthcare system. Part III uses GUTH to develop a solution to the American healthcare crisis. ... Read More 
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