Health care meltdown
Subtitle: confronting the myths and fixing our failing system
By: Robert H. LeBow ; foreword and new chapters by C. Rocky White.
Contributors: White, C. Rocky, 1961-
Edition: [Rev. ed.].
Publisher: Alan C. Hood & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chambersburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780911469301
Subjects: Medical care -- United States -- Evaluation; Medical policy -- United States -- Evaluation; Social medicine -- United States; Medicine -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- economics -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- trends -- United States; Health Policy -- United States; Medically Uninsured -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: confronting the myths: can America halt the slide toward health care meltdown?; title: Myths, misinformation, and the pursuit of profit; title: America's health care: the monster we have created; title: Monster II: perverse incentives lead to bizarre outcomes; title: Delayed care: rationing American style; title: Jumping hoops for the uninsured: caring for patients at a Community Health Center; title: Squeezing the patient: co-pays and deductibles; title: Religion and health care reform: social justice and the American way; title: Public health: we're all on this planet together; title: Blaming the victim: a bad rap for Medicare; title: We don't want a health care system like they have in those foreign countries; title: The price of health: how much should we Americans be spending on health care?; title: Don Quixote vs. the establishment: can the medical-industrial complex be toppled?; title: In search of a "uniquely American" solution to health care for all; title: Grassroots for health care for all: what can Americans do to claim a right to health care?; title: National health insurance or Medicare for all: a reality in our lifetime?; title: "Single payer will not fly": a response; title: Needed for affordable and effective health care reform in America: a paradigm shift for prevention; title: Beyond universal coverage; title: Conclusion: the fox and the henhouse.