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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 362.104250973 EAN: 9781586486624 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1586486624 Label: PublicAffairs Manufacturer: PublicAffairs Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: May 26, 2008 Publisher: PublicAffairs Release Date: May 26, 2008 Studio: PublicAffairs Editorial Review: Product 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Read This Book, Back This PlanDr. Emanuel has a smart healthcare solution for what ails us! At the heart of his plan is the method of funding, which makes so much sense. Everyone wants healthcare insurance and everyone should be willing to pay for it. Using a dedicated Value Added Tax (VAT) to pay for vouchers would be progressive, as those with more means consume more. (Credits would be given to those below an income threshold.) The VAT would capture a fair share from the illegals who currently crowd our emergency ... Read More Rating: - Another excellent book on the healthcare system in the USADr. Emanuel has been writing for some time on the subject of health care policy, usually in collaboration with Prof. Victor Fuchs, an eminent, but now-retired, health economist. Prof. Fuchs collaborated with Dr. Emanuel on this book, as Dr. Emanuel notes in it, but apparently the final version as published is mostly the work of Dr. Emanuel. This and two other books that I highly recommend on health care policy, A Second Opinion and Health Care Policy, are written by physicians who know the ... Read More Rating: - could apply to britainFascinating book and i think could be used in uk i wonder if David Cameron has acopy.Staunch supporters of the NHS need to read this as it raises serious questions about choice and how competition could drive up quality whilst keeping universal access to healthcare and avoiding overcentralisation. Rating: - Healthcare Reform, UnderstoodIf the United States hasn't passed the threshold of interest in health care reform, it must be darn close. Thus, now is the time for a clear and concise argument for any particular approach. Dr. Emanuel puts forward a specific proposal for health care reform that would address the seven goals he views as essential to success. His proposal has a strong appeal to common sense, and as such, it is one that will surely suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous ideologs. But, besides presenting his own distinct ... Read More Rating: - A realistic fix for health care!Emanuel and Fuchs have provided us a readable and concise view of what ails our health care system and a practical and feasible plan to fix our broken health care system. Many alternative solutions fail to deal with cost controls. Importantly the Guaranteed HealthCare plan does change the cost drivers in the health system. If we don't stop health care inflation we don't have a fix and a health care system that is sustainable. This book supplies an important new fresh look at both the problems and ... Read More |
