2006 - The Cure How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Hardcover) → Paperback ISBN-13: 9781594031533 ISBN-10: 1594031533 Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Nonfiction, Medicine, Medical Books ? |
When I grew up in Canada, I was interested in getting into medical school. If you had stopped me on the street when I was 16 or 17 and asked me about the Medical College Admission Test, I could have given you a variety of very satisfying, unique statistics on admission rates and so on. I didn't give a lot of thought to health policy. When HillaryCare was debated in the United States, I remember vaguely thinking there was something good about the idea: After all, government should be involved in health care. I had never even been to Washington, D.C.
The magicians believe that, with just the right combination of government regulations, medicare will magically work. The spendthrifts argue that more government spending would solve every problem — from the attitude of the grumpiest hospital orderly to the lengthiest waiting list for radiation therapy On the surface, they seem have little in common. Both magicians and spendthrifts, however, believe in a government-run health care system. And while they don’t agree on the best way to reform medicare, they basically agree that government action will provide the solution.
The problem and the predicament of American health care can be stated in a single, paradoxical sentence: Everyone agrees that it’s the best in the world, but nobody really likes it. On the one hand, we are so blessed with medical breakthroughs that we take them virtually for granted. Cardiac care has been revolutionized in only a few short years; death due to cardiac disease has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the past five decades. Polio is confined to the history books. Childhood leukemia, once a death sentence, is almost always curable Yet while the quality of American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. The state of Medicare, the cost of prescription drugs, and the numbers of uninsured are all considered crises.
2006 - The Cure How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Hardcover) → Paperback ISBN-13: 9781594031533 ISBN-10: 1594031533 Genres: Health, Fitness & Dieting, Nonfiction, Medicine, Medical Books |
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