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Corporatizing American Health Care - How We Lost Our Health Care System (Paperback)
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Corporatizing American Health Care - How We Lost Our Health Care System (Paperback)
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Tracking the evolution of medical care from an individualized small
cottage profession to a giant impersonal corporate industry costing
Americans over $3 trillion each year. Over the past three decades,
the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a
complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks,
approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours. This shift has created
a massive and at times redundant workforce that frustrates
patients, as well as physicians, nurses, and administrative staff.
Health care costs the United States over $3 trillion each year and
consumes over 18% of the country's gross domestic product. That's
more than $11,000 for each person in the country each year-more
than double what it costs in most Western European countries to
deliver equal or even better care. In Corporatizing American Health
Care, Robert W. Derlet, MD, traces the progression of health care
policy in the United States. How, he asks, has US health care
transformed from bedside medicine-a model of small practices and
patient-focused care-into corporate medicine, which prioritizes
profit and deals with both patient care and outcomes as billing
codes? Arguing that the US Congress is the root of the problem, he
describes how Congress has failed to enact legislation to prevent
corporate monopolies in the health care industry. Instead,
corrupted by large campaign donations and corporate lobbyists,
Congress has crafted loopholes benefiting corporations and harming
people. Drawing on his decades as a practicing physician caring for
thousands of patients, as well as his university and medical school
teaching experience, Derlet follows changes to both policy and
practice across many sectors of health care. Scrutinizing how
hospitals work, he also takes a hard look at high prescription drug
prices, unresponsive insurance companies, problems with the
Affordable Care Act, the growing medical implant device industry,
and even nursing homes. Finally, he explains why the dominance of
corporations and their lobbyists over health policy means that we
now pay more for our care and our medications but have less choice
both in what doctors we see and in what drugs we take. Breaking
down the complex ABCs of health care to reveal the unscrupulous
practices of the health care industry, Corporatizing American
Health Care is perfect for both students and general readers who
want to understand the changes in our system from the perspective
of an actual doctor.
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