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2030 - The Future of Medicine - Avoiding a Medical Meltdown (Paperback)
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2030 - The Future of Medicine - Avoiding a Medical Meltdown (Paperback)
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Over the last couple of years, the credit crunch has driven a
near-collapse of the world's financial systems. With the benefit of
hindsight, many say this could have been predicted and avoided.
Over the next 10-20 years, healthcare is headed for its own
meltdown: an inability to fund the growth in demand and the
appearance of costly new medical technology within the current
healthcare systems framework. This 'meltdown' will not be as sudden
as that in the world of finance: it will occur over the next 20
years, but the failure of the current sources of healthcare funding
to meet our expectations of care quantity and quality will have
consequences every bit as serious as the banking crisis. The
warning signs are there, the crisis is already being predicted -
but is it inevitable, or can it be avoided?
This book offers a penetrating analysis of the underlying problems,
and offers some simple, but far-reaching solutions to bring supply
and demand back into balance and avoid the meltdown. It is not a
contribution to the current political debate but a primer for the
changes to the underlying fabric of healthcare if reforms such as
"Obamacare" have any chance of sustainable success.
In the course of the book, we confront many topical challenges: How
can people be persuaded to manage their own health better?; Can we
afford to spend more of today's money on disease prevention and
detection, to save future costs?; Will 'personalised medicine' be
cheaper, or more expensive?; Are healthcare IT systems a key part
of the solution or doomed to be expensive white elephants?; and
most importantly: What will the future of healthcare look like, for
us and for our children and grandchildren?
To bring the answers to this final question alive, the book uses a
fictitious family, the Carters, to illustrate the changes we will
see, the dilemmas we will face and the solutions we must strive
for. Interspersed between the text are the vignettes of members of
the family, their diseases and treatments and how change has
affected each of their lives.
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