Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It [Kindle Edition]
Author: David Goldhill | Language: English | ISBN: B00957T4QK | Format: PDF, EPUB
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A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.
In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year caused by medical error. The bill was enormous—and Medicare paid it. These circumstances left Goldhill angry and determined to understand how world-class technology and personnel could coexist with such carelessness—and how a business that failed so miserably could be paid in full. Catastrophic Care is the eye-opening result.
Blending personal anecdotes and extensive research, Goldhill presents us with cogent, biting analysis that challenges the basic preconceptions that have shaped our thinking for decades. Contrasting the Island of health care with the Mainland of our economy, he demonstrates that high costs, excess medicine, terrible service, and medical error are the inevitable consequences of our insurance-based system. He explains why policy efforts to fix these problems have invariably produced perverse results, and how the new Affordable Care Act is more likely to deepen than to solve these issues.
Goldhill steps outside the incremental and wonkish debates to question the conventional wisdom blinding us to more fundamental issues. He proposes a comprehensive new way, where the customer (the patient) is first—a system focused on health and maintaining it, a system strong and vibrant enough for our future.
If you think health care is interesting only to institutes and politicians, think again: Catastrophic Care is surprising, engaging, and brimming with insights born of questions nobody has thought to ask. Above all it is a book of new ideas that can transform the way we understand a subject we often take for granted.
- File Size: 2017 KB
- Print Length: 386 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0307961540
- Publisher: Vintage; 1 edition (January 8, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00957T4QK
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
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Written for a general (but thinking) audience, this book could really turn around all public discourse on health care and become a seminal work on the subject.By Ilya Valkovsky
The divisive health care debate of recent years is centered over WHO should shoulder astronomic medical costs. The issue of taming the exorbitant prices and costs is relegated to the side issue of waste and abuse. David Goldhill takes a new and different approach. He puts aside the standard assumption that health care is somehow exempt from the normal rules of economic activity. He focuses on WHY the costs became so exorbitant in the first place. Goldhill shows persuasively that the costs are the result of the very design of our current medical system, and the only way to bring the costs down to earth is to REPLACE entirely the current economic arrangements of our medicine - both the private insurance system and Medicare/Medicaid.
That's a book of new ideas. These ideas are breakthrough innovative, brilliant, deeply thought through; analysis superb. As with all things new and complex, it requires an effort to understand. If you have any background or interest in economics, even the economics of everyday life, give it more consideration.
We aren't going to solve our nation's fiscal problems without fresh thinking on health care, which consumes almost 18% of our GDP, with no end in sight to its enormous growth. This brilliant new book reframes the national conversation about health care. Currently the debate is framed around health coverage: who gets covered, how plans compete, what Medicare/Medicaid should and shouldn't pay for, etc. This framing assumes that paying for health care through a surrogate, like a health plan or Medicare, is a priori the only way of doing business in health care.By Amazon Customer
David Goldhill believes that assumption is in fact the root cause of the problems in health care. A businessman in the entertainment industry, he was blissfully unaware of some of the failings of our health care system--until he encountered them full force with his father's hospitalization and death from infection. He wondered why the healthcare system played by an entirely different set of rules than he did in the business world.He studied the problem for a few years, and this book is the result.
He makes a strong case that surrogates drive costs up and quality down, and our health care system is on a crash-course to devastate our economy. He says that we as Americans cherish the myth that we don't really pay for our own health care, our health plan or Medicare does. That myth, says Goldhill, is the core of the problem in our health care system, and the seed of the solution.
Goldhill's perspective and his proposed solutions are unorthodox and will likely generate some controversy. But given the serious problems in our health care system, this incisive book is critical and a must-read for policymakers on both sides of the aisle.
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