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Sto caricando le informazioni... Health Care: Opposing Viewpoints (2000)di James D. Torr
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This book presents various opinions on whether America's health care system is in need of reform, what government initiatives could improve the health care system, and how should the problems with managed care be resolved. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It was an interesting setup. Various people wrote opinions on a number of healthcare topics. Each topic had several opposing viewpoints. Like FoxNews says, "We report, you decide." They explored topics such as, "Is there a crisis?", "How do we fix health care?", "Is Canada's system a good model?".
All in all, I learned a lot about the factors that caused our health care system to go from a fee-for-service to a managed-care system. Here's what I think. The reason medical professionals are so upset about managed care is because for years they've had a blank check to do whatever procedures they wanted. Useless or not, insurance companies would never say no. The medical business went from 8% of the GNP to 13%. Things were spiralling out of control. Enter managed care. Doctors were suddenly being watched. They now had to justify their decisions. No more blank check.
I enjoyed this book simply because the viewpoints were fairly short. Less than 5 pages. The book itself was a small paperback. Very easy to read. I would recommend it to anyone wanting to learn why we got into this mess, and how we should fix it. If it needs fixing at all. ( )