Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis, Edition 2
About this ebook
Goodman then provides what many critics of our healthcare system neglect: solutions.
And not a moment too soon. Americans are entangled in a system with perverse incentives that raise costs, reduce quality, and make care less accessible. It's not just patients that need liberation from this labyrinth of confusion—it's doctors, businessmen, and institutions as well.
Read this new work and discover:
- why no one sees a real price for anything: no patient, no doctor, no employer, no employee;
- how Obamacare's perverse incentives cause insurance companies to seek to attract the healthy and avoid the sick;
- why having a preexisting condition is actually WORSE under Obamacare than it was before—despite rosy political promises to the contrary;
- why emergency-room traffic and long waits for care have actually increased under Obamacare;
- how Medicaid expansion spends new money insuring healthy, single adults, while doing nothing for the developmentally disabled who languish on waiting lists and children who aren't getting the pediatric care they need;
- how the market for medical care COULD be as efficient and consumer-friendly as the market for cell phone repair... and what it would take to make that happen;
- how to create centers of medical excellence, which compete to meet the needs of the chronically ill;
- and much, much more...
Thoroughly researched, clearly written, and decidedly humane in its concern for the health of all Americans, John Goodman has written the healthcare book to read to understand today's healthcare crisis. His proposed solutions are bold, crucial, and most importantly, caring. Healthcare is complex. But this book isn't. It's clear, it's satisfying, and it's refreshingly human.
If you read even one book about healthcare policy in America, this is the one to read.
About the author
John C. Goodman, acclaimed as the "father of Health Savings Accounts" by The Wall Street Journal, is a leading health policy thinker. Author of nine influential books, including "New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First", Goodman's work has significantly impacted health care reform. He frequently appears on television, contributes to major newspapers, and advises Congress on economic policy. Goodman holds a PhD in economics from Columbia University and has received the Duncan Black award for his contributions to public choice economics.
