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• Title:Health care half-truths : too many myths, not enough reality / Arthur Garson Jr. and Carolyn L. Engelhard.
  
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• Author/Creator:Garson, Arthur, Jr.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Engelhard, Carolyn L., 1951-
  
• Published/Created:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., ©2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W84.AA1 G18 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medicine--Miscellanea.
  Medical care--Miscellanea.
  Social medicine--Miscellanea.
  Health care reform--Miscellanea.
  
• Medical Subjects: Delivery of Health Care--organization & administration--United States.
  Health Care Reform--United States.
  
• Genre/Form:Trivia and miscellanea.
  
• Description:xix, 290 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"Are you fed up with hearing that the American health care "system" is broken? The system is terminal: the bills that cannot be understood - or paid; your eight-minute doctor visit, with the chronic referrals; your own child who was just laid off, and whose family has no health insurance." "These are all symptoms of a dire situation. Our health care system should not be fixed by those in smoked-filled backrooms or the boardrooms of insurance conglomerates. Each of us, in our own way, must be inspired to work on it - whether directly as practitioners or indirectly as voters - or our health care system and, by extension, our own health will continue to deteriorate."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-280) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780742558298 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0742558290 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:American medical care is second-rate compared to other countries
  American health care is the most expensive in the world
  America wastes one-half of its medical care dollars
  Most medical care dollars are spent in the last six months of life
  Better quality saves money
  Preventive care saves money
  America will not ration health care
  Science drives most medical decisions
  High quality care cannot be defined
  Consumers can make the best decisions about their medical care
  Fewer doctors will be needed as medicine changes
  The current malpractice system helps patients
  Managing care is evil
  In America, there is a "safety net" of government programs providing health care for the poor
  People who work can afford health insurance
  Provision of health insurance for employees has always been the employer's responsibility, and will continue that way
  The uninsured get the care they need in emergency rooms
  No additional funding is needed to cover the uninsured; the money is available in the system
  All other countries provide health care coverage for everyone; we should be no different
  Major change in the American health care system is impossible.