What The Us Healthcare System Doesnt Want You To Know Why And How You Can Do Something About It

Author : Thom Hartmann
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781523091645

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The Hidden History of American Healthcare by Thom Hartmann Pdf

Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality. "For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s,” says Thom Hartmann. Other countries have shown us that affordable universal healthcare is not only possible but also effective and efficient. Taiwan's single-payer system saved the country a fortune as well as saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, enabling the country to implement a nationwide coronavirus test-and-contact-trace program without shutting down the economy. This resulted in just ten deaths, while more than 500,000 people have died in the United States. Hartmann offers a deep dive into the shameful history of American healthcare, showing how greed, racism, and oligarchic corruption led to the current “sickness for profit” system. Modern attempts to create versions of government healthcare have been hobbled at every turn, including Obamacare. There is a simple solution: Medicare for all. Hartmann outlines the extraordinary benefits this system would provide the American people and economy and the steps we need to take to make it a reality. It's time for America to join every industrialized country in the world and make health a right, not a privilege.

Author : Vinayak K. Prasad,Adam S. Cifu
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421429045

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Ending Medical Reversal by Vinayak K. Prasad,Adam S. Cifu Pdf

They outline a comprehensive plan to reform medical education, research funding and protocols, and the process for approving new drugs that will ensure that more of what gets done in doctors' offices and hospitals is truly effective.

Author : Jesse Ventura,Dick Russell
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781616085711

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63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read by Jesse Ventura,Dick Russell Pdf

Analyzes a series of public domain documents which demonstrate how the government has misled the public, engaging in deception about the objectives and scope of some of its programs and perpetuating wasteful spending and harmful cover-ups.

Author : Kat Lahr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733468528

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What The U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You To Know, Why, And How You Can Do Something About It (Black & White Version) by Kat Lahr Pdf

Consumers of healthcare are conditioned to be uninformed and misguided. Why? Well, the United States healthcare system - health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, specialists, and others - is assembled to keep you sick. They don't want you to know this because it's making them very rich.In fact, we are the only developed nation in the world that allows the health industry to profit, maintaining incentives for providers to keep us sick. This status quo is kept alive by keeping Americans uninformed. We have been conditioned to not know the inner workings of our healthcare system, and as a result, are powerless.Yet we can, and should, do something about it. As a form of public service to the uninformed health consumer, which studies show to be 90% of Americans, this powerful and one-of-a-kind expose provides the data and facts from reputable sources to support these bold conclusions and urges readers to make their own!So, what does the U.S healthcare system not want you to know? You are invited to become informed.

Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780698407183

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An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal Pdf

A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.

Author : Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541797727

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Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? by Ezekiel J. Emanuel Pdf

The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles eleven of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least where excellence can be found. Using a unique comparative structure, the book allows healthcare professionals, patients, and policymakers alike to know which systems perform well, and why, and which face endemic problems. From Taiwan to Germany, Australia to Switzerland, the most inventive healthcare providers tackle a global set of challenges -- in pursuit of the best healthcare in the world.

Author : Robert Pearl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Health services administration
ISBN : 1610399072

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Mistreated by Robert Pearl Pdf

"Despite all the debate about health care, Americans tend to assume they are in the best of hands when they enter the hospital. This is inaccurate : American health care is in the bottom half of all industrialized countries. This is only the largest in a broad set of misperceptions. We appropriately worry about the security of technology, but fail to see how its absence kills hundreds of people every day from medical errors. We over-value the impact of intervention on saving lives and ignore the 200,000 people who die each year unnecessarily from diseases they did not have to get. We worry that end of life discussions and palliative care will lead to "death squads," when research proves that people actually live not only better, but also longer. We demand modern information technology from our banks, airlines, retailers and hotels, but we passively accept last century's technology in our health care. It's not just patients who get things wrong. Physicians perceive that the dollars they take from drug companies don't alter their prescribing habits, but the data demonstrates that for every dollar the pharmaceutical world spends on doctors, they get $10 in return. Academic researchers deny that their results are influenced by which company funds the work, but in 95% of the cases, the outcome supports the funding source. Dr. Robert Pearl has seen these mistakes from all sides: as a concerned citizen, a patient, a health industry leader, and most importantly, a victim of bureaucracy, whose own father died due in part to medical error. In this book, Pearl explains why misperception is so common in medicine, both for patients and physicians. Solving the challenges of health care today including excessive costs, poor quality and the lack of convenience will require an understanding of this phenomenon, and an approach that aligns health care delivery with up to date information and data. It emphasizes the power of context, and how through integration, prepayment, information technology and physician leadership, superior outcomes can be achieve. It draws on other industries and companies like Amazon and Uber that were able to overcome customer fear, and shift perception, and provides a roadmap for the future"--

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : PURD:32754085105462

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Ed Brodow
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781682612040

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In Lies We Trust by Ed Brodow Pdf

What politicians and the media don't want you to know. Millions of Americans at both ends of the political spectrum are angry and fed up with being lied to by politicians and the media. The emergence of “outsider” presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is proof that people are sick and tired of Washington’s culture of deception. Thumbing his nose at political correctness, negotiation expert and political commentator Ed Brodow exposes the outrageous lies that have been disseminated about the most important issues of our time. He tells the uncensored truth about the threat of Islamic extremism, global warming, the welfare entitlement system, Obamacare, racial tension and other important things that our elected representatives don’t want you to know. If you vote in national elections, the candor of In Lies We Trust will help you make decisions based on facts instead of misinformation.

Author : Thomas R. Meinders
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781462038992

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Americans Against Obama by Thomas R. Meinders Pdf

Americans Against Obama is a collection of newsletters that I produced as the Committee Chairman of the American Citizens Political Action Committee to show what Americans think about Obama and his administration. These newsletters were produced at the time the main stream media and others released their press releases. It is designed to illustrate what the average American thought of the articles and how biased the main stream media is in slanting their articles to favor the unions, Democrats and President Obama. There should be more truth in reporting. It appears that the White House is approving all the main stream media reports instead of reporting actual facts. That is not right. Our purpose is to have a record of what the American citizens wanted our elected representatives and president to try to accomplish while they are in office. We will then be able to compare the results at the end of 2012 and see who has performed their duties in the manner that the United States citizens wanted. I think we are going to be really surprised by the results.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Alaska Native veterans
ISBN : PSU:000063510140

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Health Care for Alaska Native Veterans Returning from Kuwait and Iraq and Other Native Veterans Living in Alaska Native Villages by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- ) Pdf

Author : Kat Lahr
Publisher : To Err Is Healthcare
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1733468544

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What The U.S. Healthcare System Doesn't Want You To Know, Why, And How You Can Do Something About It (Color Version) by Kat Lahr Pdf

Consumers of healthcare are conditioned to be uninformed and misguided. Why? Well, the United States healthcare system is assembled to keep you sick. They don't want you to know this because it's making them very rich.

Author : Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 9781681813813

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The Cancer in the American Healthcare System by Dr. Deane Waldman, MD MBA Pdf

“Expecting Washington to fix healthcare is like waiting for cancer to cure cancer.” – Dr. Deane Waldman A cancer is devouring the U.S. healthcare system. Is there a cure? America: are you confused, scared … or mad as hell? Before you give up in disgust, read The Cancer in the American Healthcare System. You’ll discover: * Why health care is both less affordable and much less available… * Where all those trillions of “healthcare” dollars go… * Who the real bad guys are… * Why Obamacare can’t and won’t help you… *How to regain control over your own health care… Praise for multiple award-winning The Cancer in Healthcare (2012) “Easy, entertaining read, will make the Bad Guys squirm. Dr. Waldman’s style is lively and lucid, and the book is packed with facts. It is not just another boring recital of platitudes. His real life examples leave no doubt as to how absurd and sick the system is. …Read it an weep, laugh, or both.” – DR. JANE ORIENT, FORMER PRESIDENT, ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS “This book is easy … to understand, but does not lack real fact-based academic rigor. It is a fast fun read, that will help you get a better understanding of the issues with the healthcare system iin the United States. Five stars.” – S. POWER, AMAZON TOP 500 REVIEWER

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Consumer education
ISBN : MINN:31951D037802842

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The Power of Transparency by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Pdf

Author : Efrem G. Mallach
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781482223712

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Information Systems by Efrem G. Mallach Pdf

Most information systems textbooks overwhelm business students with overly technical information they may not need in their careers. Information Systems: What Every Business Student Needs to Know takes a new approach to the required information systems course for business majors.For each topic covered, the text highlights key "Take-Aways" that aler