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Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions
- By Douglas A. Perednia
- Published Nov 29, 2010 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 6 X 9
- Pages: 288
- Edition: 1st
- eBook (Watermarked)
- ISBN-10: 0-13-231171-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-231171-7
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Dr. Doug Perednia has been a medical internist, dermatologist, medical informatics researcher, healthcare entrepreneur, and creator of several non-profits. In the 1990s, he was principal investigator on digital imaging and telecommunications research projects for the National Cancer Institute and National Library of Medicine, and founded the Telemedicine Research Center. Later, he founded Kietra Corporation to develop versatile, low-cost technologies to improve patient care and reduce overhead. In 2007, he created U.S. Healthcare Constitution.org, a non-profit dedicated to injecting non-partisan reason, dialogue, and the “big picture” into America’s healthcare debate.
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.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Nature of the Beast
Chapter 1: An Introduction 3
Chapter 2: Are We Getting What We’re Paying For? 9
Chapter 3: Where Does All Our Money Go? 17
Chapter 4: Into Thin Air 39
Chapter 5: The Healthcare Machine 53
Chapter 6: How and Why They Spin: Inside Key Wheels 63
Part II: Why the Machine Is Breaking Down
Chapter 7: Too Many Parts 123
Chapter 8: Sand in the Gears 135
Chapter 9: Friction 183
Part III: How to Fix It
Chapter 10: Defining the Desired Outcome 219
Chapter 11: Overhauling Payment for Healthcare Goods and Services 227
Chapter 12: Dumping Redundancy 263
Chapter 13: Blowing Sand Out of the System 271
Chapter 14: Lubricating Points of Friction 301
Chapter 15: Where Does the Money Come From? 323
Chapter 16: The End of an Era 331
Appendix: "Brief Strategy B" from the Federal Guidelines Regarding Smokers Who Report That They Are Unwilling to Quit 337
References 341
Index 359
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