Dr. Doug Peredniareveals how government and insurance company-created complexity is tearing apart the U.S. healthcare system and presents a new model for healthcare reform that will actually work. Leading physician, healthcare expert, and entrepreneur Perednia identifies specific inefficiencies and worthless administrative overhead that is making healthcare inaccessible or unaffordable for millions, driving providers from practice, and adding over half a trillion dollars annually to healthcare spending. Next, he shows how to design a far simpler system: one that delivers care to everyone by drawing on the best of both market efficiency and public "universality." Recent "health care reform" involved 2,000+ pages of complex, special interest-friendly legislation--including 168 new federal committees, program cuts, and higher taxpayer costs. Perednia offers a better way: a logical, comprehensive, and non-partisan and apolitical approach that gives providers and their patients more medical and financial security, enhances competition, would save some $570 billion annually--and still gives individual patients real freedom. This plan isn't wishful thinking: Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine backs it up with detailed logic and objective calculations. Even after the recent endless debate about healthcare, the system is still broken--and unless it's fixed, it will break us all. Perednia shows how to finally fix it: once and for all.

Perednia, Douglas A.

Globe Fearon Educational Publishing

Longman Publishing

Cengage Gale

United States, United States of America

New Jersey, USA, February 2011

Upper Saddle River, N.J, ©2011

Upper Saddle River, N.J, c2011

1, PS, 2011

<p>“Finally, a healthcare system that works! <i>Overhauling America’s Healthcare Machine</i> is a superbly written book on what it takes to reduce administrative bloat, simplify the system, slash costs, and give all Americans sustainable medical and financial security.”</p>
<p>–William Bernstein, Bestselling author of <i>A Splendid Exchange</i> and <i>The Birth of Plenty</i></p>
<p>“Scholarly both in thinking and writing. A terrific accomplishment.”</p>
<p>–Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine</p>
<p>Bureaucratic complexity is smothering America’s healthcare system–pointless, costly, wasteful complexity created by both the government and insurance companies. In <i>Overhauling America’s Healthcare Machine</i>, leading physician, healthcare expert, and entrepreneur Douglas A. Perednia, M.D., systematically identifies worthless overhead that is making healthcare inaccessible to millions, driving providers from practice, and bankrupting America. Then, he shows how to design a far simpler system that delivers care to everyone by drawing on the best of both free markets and carefully crafted public initiatives.</p>
<p>The Obama “healthcare reform” involved more than 2,000 pages of special interest-friendly legislation. It mandates 168 new federal committees and programs, which reflects even higher healthcare spending and billions in new taxes. Yet, the system is still utterly broken–and unless it’s fixed, it will break us all. Perednia offers a better way: a logical, comprehensive, and nonpartisan approach that gives providers and patients both security and freedom, enhances competition, and will save more than $570 billion each year.</p>
<p><b>Why we spend twice as much on healthcare–without better results</b></p>
<p>The real reasons American healthcare costs more without delivering more</p>
<p><b>Where does all the money go–and why?</b></p>
<p>Uncovering the insane waste and bureaucracy pervading American healthcare</p>
<p><b>Scrubbing the sand out of the gears</b></p>
<p>Eliminating the worthless tasks, processes, and rules that cause soaring costs</p>
<p><b>Focusing spending where it will do the most good</b></p>
<p>Getting the greatest medical benefit from limited dollars</p>

xii, 369 p. : 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-357) and index
An introduction -- Are we getting what we're paying for? -- Where does all of our money go? -- Into thin air -- The healthcare machine -- How and why they spin : inside key wheels -- Why the machine is breaking down -- Too many parts -- Sand in the gears -- Friction -- How to fix it -- Defining the desired outcome -- Overhauling payment for healthcare goods and services -- Dumping redundancy -- Blowing sand out of the system -- Lubricating points of friction -- Where does the money come from? -- The end of an era

The Nature of the Beast
Introduction
Are We Getting What We're Paying For?
Where Does All Our Money Go?
Into Thin Air
The Healthcare Machine
How and Why They Spin: Inside Key Wheels
Why The Machine Is Breaking Down
Too Many Parts
Sand In The Gears
Fiction
How To Fix It
Defining The Desired Outcome
Overhauling Payment For Healthcare Goods and Services
Dumping Redundancy
Blowing Sand Out of The System
Lubricating Points of Friction
Where Does The Money Come From?
The End of an Era
"Brief Strategy B" from the Federal Guidelines...
References by Chapter
Index

Even after Obama, America's healthcare system is still broken, and it will soon bankrupt us all. The solution: radical simplification. Now, the author a healthcare expert and entrepreneur reveals the system's shocking, unnecessary inefficiencies, and outlines a simple, logical, complete solution that offers greater security, enhances competition, and will save trillions

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