Hijacked:: The Road to Single-Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform - Brossura

Geyman M.D., John

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ISBN 10: 1938218094 ISBN 13: 9781938218095

Casa editrice: Copernicus Healthcare, 2010

Riassunto

Soaring costs. No price controls. More employers reducing or dropping coverage. Insurance covering only 70 percent of our health care costs. More Americans going without necessary health care. Increasing medical bankruptcies. Sound familiar? Added to this will be fines of up to 2.5 percent of our income if we fail to purchase the industry’s defective products. This is our future in the aftermath of Health Care “Reform” 2010, guided by a failing industry bailed out by new government subsidies.The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) is being spun as the answer to our problems of health care access, costs and quality. But the dirty little secret is that the reform effort has been stolen by the very corporate interests that have perpetuated and profited from these problems for years. The result is a bailout of a failing insurance industry and a bonanza for Wall Street. Most Americans and Main Street lose once again. The need for real health care reform remains urgent.This well-documented book charts a path to that end. Hijacked: The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform is essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand how our health care system got this way and what we can do about it.

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L'autore

John Geyman, M.D. is professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine from 1976 to 1990. As a family physician with over 25 years in academic medicine, he also practiced in rural communities for 13 years.  He was the founding editor of The Journal of Family Practice (1973 to 1990) and the editor of The American Journal of Family Medicine from 1990 to 2003. Since 1990 he has been involved with research and writing on health policy and health care reform. His most recent book How Obamacare Is Unsustainable: Why We Need a Single-Payer Solution For All Americans (2015). Earlier books include Health Care Wars: How Market Ideology and Corporate Power Are Killing Americans (2012), Souls On a Walk: An Enduring Love Story Unbroken by Alzheimer's (2012), Breaking Point: How the Primary Care Crisis Threatens the Lives of Americans (2011), Hijacked: The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform (2010), The Cancer Generation: Baby Boomers Facing a Perfect Storm (2009), Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry Is Dying (2008), The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim Its Moral Legacy (2008), and Shredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare (2006), and Health Care in America: Can Our Ailing System Be Healed? (2002).

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• Editore: Copernicus Healthcare
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1938218094
• ISBN 13: 9781938218095
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304