The future of health-care delivery
Subtitle: why it must change and how it will affect you
By: Stephen C. Schimpff
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781612341569
Subjects: Medical care; Forecasting; Medical policy
Description: Approximately 100,000 deaths per year in the United States result from preventable medical errors. This figure is about twice the number of people who die in car accidents and five times the number of murder victims annually, and twenty times the number of servicemen and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since the start of hostilities in 2001. If you think Americans have the best health-care system in the world, think again. In this deeply researched and controversial book, the author explains why our health-care delivery system serves us so poorly, why it costs so much, and why government policy over many decades has not only failed to improve care delivery but has actually made it worse. In the process, he dispels common misconceptions about medicine and health care. Timely information and a road map to achieve world-class care delivery are shown here - putting health care where it belongs - in the hands of the patient and medical professionals instead of the insurance companies and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.