Overhauling America's healthcare machine : stop the bleeding and save trillions / Douglas A. Perednia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perednia, Douglas A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--United States--Finance.

Medical care.

Delivery of Health Care--economics--United States.

Medical Subjects:

Delivery of Health Care--economics--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 369 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Dr. Doug Peredniareveals how government and insurance company-created complexity is tearing apart the U.S. healthcare system and presents a new model for healthcare reform that will actually work. Leading physician, healthcare expert, and entrepreneur Perednia identifies specific inefficiencies and worthless administrative overhead that is making healthcare inaccessible or unaffordable for millions, driving providers from practice, and adding over half a trillion dollars annually to healthcare spending. Next, he shows how to design a far simpler system: one that delivers care to everyone by drawing on the best of both market efficiency and public "universality." Recent "health care reform" involved 2,000+ pages of complex, special interest-friendly legislation--including 168 new federal committees, program cuts, and higher taxpayer costs. Perednia offers a better way: a logical, comprehensive, and non-partisan and apolitical approach that gives providers and their patients more medical and financial security, enhances competition, would save some $570 billion annually--and still gives individual patients real freedom. This plan isn't wishful thinking: Overhauling America’s Healthcare Machine backs it up with detailed logic and objective calculations. Even after the recent endless debate about healthcare, the system is still broken--and unless it's fixed, it will break us all. Perednia shows how to finally fix it: once and for all.

Contents:

An introduction

Are we getting what we're paying for?

Where does all of our money go?

Into thin air

The healthcare machine

How and why they spin : inside key wheels

Why the machine is breaking down

Too many parts

Sand in the gears

Friction

How to fix it

Defining the desired outcome

Overhauling payment for healthcare goods and services

Dumping redundancy

Blowing sand out of the system

Lubricating points of friction

Where does the money come from?

The end of an era.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-357) and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

733750243