Witnesses: Michael O'Grady, assist. sec. of planning & evaluation, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (HHS); Raymond Scheppach, exec. dir., Nat. Governors Assoc.; Mark Meiners, Ph.D., nat. program dir., Univ. of Maryland Center on Aging, College Park, MD; Melanie M. Bella, assist. sec., Indiana Family & Social Services Admin., Indianapolis, IN; Bob Bishop, long term care partnership insurance consumer, Carmel, IN; Kevin Corcoran, exec. v.p., Nat. Assoc. of Health Underwriters, Arlington, VA; & Steve Chies, chair, The Amer. Health Care Assoc., Cambridge, MN. Illustrations.
The Fifth Edition of this best-selling health policy text is updated with a collection of new articles on various health policies. Health Policy provides a basic overview of the health policy and political process as it relates to thte health status of the US, the organization and issues of the healthcare system, and healthcare economics.
After years in private practice, retired physician and author Dr. Nelson A. Paguyo explores the deplorable state of the American healthcare system. With plenty of professional insight, Dr. Paguyo proposes a system of universal healthcare as a solution to America's medical crisis.
The healthcare system in the Unites States is broken, and the quality of healthcare is not being addressed by health insurance companies. Costs are out of control and insurance plan designs are shifting the financial burden to the American public. In The War on Medical Terrorism, author and insurance expert Les Stettner wages war on health insurance companies and presents viable solutions to the current healthcare crisis. With the goal of educating Americans, The War on Medical Terrorism unravels the complicated healthcare crisis, details how it began, and discusses ways to resolve it. Stettner presents arguments for socializing healthcare delivery and converting to a single-payer system that will reduce medical expenses by fifty percent. This book provides the tools needed to become the most highly informed consumers and reformers of healthcare. A call to action to work toward logical reform, The War on Medical Terrorism details the necessary steps to restructure the U.S. medical delivery system and to improve it in ways that will result in better outcomes at lower costs for all Americans.