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It's Enough to Make You Sick : The Failure of American Health Care and a Prescription for the C...

ISBN: 9781442214620 | 1442214627

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHING
Pub. Date: 4/1/2012

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Summary Table of Contents

More and more Americans are finding themselves without health insurance or with coverage that is so inadequate they face financial ruin in the event they actually get sick. So they go without. Their children don't receive their immunizations. They allow that worrisome lump in their breast to grow so large that by the time the cancer has been detected it has spread beyond the ability to cure. Seniors can't pay their heating bills or even sustain adequate nutrition as the rising cost of their prescription drugs compels them to make difficult choi... MOREces. Just how did our system become so dysfunctional and who is responsible? This book will tell you. Too often, discussions on the health care crisis focus a myopic lens on the usual suspects. We are all quick to point a finger at insurance companies who place profit over patients or the pharmaceutical industry which extorts obscene amounts of American dollars for the same drugs that cost 50 to 75 percent less when we cross our borders north or south. We blame trial lawyers who practice with a "lottery" mentality that protects neither the patient from negligent care nor good physicians from frivolous lawsuits. But the culpability for our crisis is more widespread. Hospitals have devolved from not-for- profit, community-based institutions to large, national for-profit chains. Doctors no longer spend time with their patients but instead rely on expensive and often times unnecessary tests and use physician extenders (such as P.A.s and nurse practitioners) to move patients along like cars on an assembly line. Politicians pass well-meaning laws as a knee-jerk reaction to a specific issue without understanding the unexpected consequences which, frequently, only exacerbate the problem. And they operate in a system of special interests and influence peddling that all but assures the failure of any meaningful health care reform. And while we all demand high quality health care, few actually take preventative measures that could keep them out of the system they deride. Thi

It's Enough to Make You Sick explains how the American health care system developed and how it has deteriorated into a national disgrace. Lobosky indicts the special interests who have played a role in the demise of American health care, examines the current attempts at reform, and offers a practical, compassionate blueprint for effective change.

"Our health care system is indeed broken and badly in need of repair. The traditional doctor-patient covenant has been replaced by a system of market-driven initiatives that have resulted in a shredding of that sacred bond. Hopefully, [this book] will explain to you just how our current system has become so dysfunctional, why so many of our citizens lack access to the miracles of American medicine, why our seniors are forced to choose between their blood pressure medications and their groceries, and why hardworking men and women stand to lose everything if, God forbid, they develop cancer." Book jacket.

Prologue	p. 1
Great, Another Book on America's Health Care System. Don't You Have Better Things to Do, Doctor … Like Play Golf?	p. 5
Health Care in America: The Best That Money Can Buy…Oh, Really?	p. 11
Insuring America's Health: A Lesson in "Mis" Managed Care	p. 21
The U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry: Providing the Right Pill for Whatever Ails You and the Wrong Pill for Whatever Doesn't	p. 33
The ... MORE	p. 49
America's Hospitals: Havens of Mercy or Dens of Thieves?	p. 63
America's Physicians: Oops, Sorry, I Mean Health Care "Providers"	p. 75
Physician Reimbursement: You Can't Always Get What You Want, but if You Try Sometimes You Might Find You Don't Even Get What You Need	p. 85
Pretty in Pink The Influence of Women on America's Medical "Manpower	p. 93
The Medical Malpractice Crisis: How Many Lawyers Does It Take to Chase an Ambulance?	p. 105
Crisis in America's Emergency Rooms: Take Two Aspirin and Call 911 in the Morning	p. 119
The Great American Patient: You Didn't Really Think I Would Let You Off That Easily, Did You?	p. 131
Solutions to the American' Health Care Crisis: My Wife Has Always Accused Me of Being a "Know-It-All," So Here's My Chance to Prove It	p. 143
Epilogue	p. 213
Acknowledgments	p. 217
Notes	p. 221
Index	p. 241
About the Author	p. 251
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