Healthcare, Guaranteed : A Simple, Secure Solution for America

by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Paper Book, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

IBMC Library - W 275 AA1 E495 2008

Publication

New York : PublicAffairs

ISBN

9781586486624

Description

America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare--2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those Americans who are insured, many suffer from poor health. In his ground-breaking proposal, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offers up a plan to comprehensively restructure the delivery and quality of our healthcare. By eliminating employer-healthcare and establishing an independent program to evaluate healthcare plans and insurance companies, he offers a no-nonsense guide to how government can institute private insurance options that will allow each of us a choice of doctor and plan. With the rate of healthcare costs rapidly outpacing our gross domestic product, we can no longer afford to maintain our fragmented delivery of care, or entertain reforms that seek to patch, rather than cure, a fractured system. Accessible, straightforward, and revolutionary in its approach, Healthcare, Guaranteed is an inarguable guide to lasting healthcare reform.… (more)

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CONTENTS:
Beyond anecdotes
The goals of reform
History and havoc: the diagnosis of the problem
The guaranteed healthcare access plan: a comprehensive cure
Band-aids are not enough
The mistake of mandates
Single-payer plans: an outdated solution for modern medicine
Opening the door to comprehensive change: will the system get better? When? How?
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