The Cost Of Being Sick
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The Cost Of Being Sick
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Author : Nicholas J. Webb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-06
The Cost Of Being Sick written by Nicholas J. Webb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06 with Health & Fitness categories.
Lousy nutritional habits, a ?treatment vs. prevention? medical industry mindset, and the high cost of paying for prescription drugs are all merging to create a health care ?perfect storm? that will, if left unattended, swallow the health care industry whole and take a lot of Americans down with it.Healthcare futurist and medical product inventor Nicholas J. Webb, explores seven key predictions regarding the future?and the reality?of America?s current health care system. Based on current studies, The Cost of Being Sick follows today?s trends to their logical finales.Avoiding this imminent crash, however, can be done. With health benefits slipping while the cost of treatments continues to escalate all in the face of poor health routines that feed the disease process, there is only one possible course of action. Each of us must accept the responsibility for our own health?not only for ourselves, but for our children as well.And here?s the silver-lining: Not only does The Cost of Being Sick expose the cause of our failing health care system, but it also presents the cure. And the cure promises more than just relief from the problems we are facing. This cure also promises a better lifestyle and a strengthened financial position.So what exactly is ?the cost of being sick?? The price is more than you will want to pay?but it is a bill you can avoid.
The Cost Of Being Sick
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Author : Nicholas J. Webb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Cost Of Being Sick written by Nicholas J. Webb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Health behavior categories.
The Cost Of Being Sick
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Children and Families
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Cost Of Being Sick written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Children and Families and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Business & Economics categories.
Complete Guide To Health Insurance
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Author : Houge Jensen Urban
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991-06-02
Complete Guide To Health Insurance written by Houge Jensen Urban and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-06-02 with categories.
The Complete Guide To Health Insurance
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Author : Kathleen Hogue
language : en
Publisher: Avon Books
Release Date : 1990-01-01
The Complete Guide To Health Insurance written by Kathleen Hogue and has been published by Avon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with Political Science categories.
Discusses adjustments in coverage recommended for such life changes as a new baby and marriage, and answers commonly asked questions on health care provisions
The Complete Guide To Health Insurance
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Author : Kathleen Hogue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Complete Guide To Health Insurance written by Kathleen Hogue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Business & Economics categories.
Complete Guide To Health Insurance
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Author : Kathleen Hogue
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Complete Guide To Health Insurance written by Kathleen Hogue and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
An American Sickness
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Author : Elisabeth Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-04-11
An American Sickness written by Elisabeth Rosenthal and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-11 with Medical categories.
A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of 2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017 "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
How We Do Harm
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Author : Otis Webb Brawley, MD
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2012-01-31
How We Do Harm written by Otis Webb Brawley, MD and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
How We Do Harm exposes the underbelly of healthcare today—the overtreatment of the rich, the under treatment of the poor, the financial conflicts of interest that determine the care that physicians' provide, insurance companies that don't demand the best (or even the least expensive) care, and pharmaceutical companies concerned with selling drugs, regardless of whether they improve health or do harm. Dr. Otis Brawley is the chief medical and scientific officer of The American Cancer Society, an oncologist with a dazzling clinical, research, and policy career. How We Do Harm pulls back the curtain on how medicine is really practiced in America. Brawley tells of doctors who select treatment based on payment they will receive, rather than on demonstrated scientific results; hospitals and pharmaceutical companies that seek out patients to treat even if they are not actually ill (but as long as their insurance will pay); a public primed to swallow the latest pill, no matter the cost; and rising healthcare costs for unnecessary—and often unproven—treatments that we all pay for. Brawley calls for rational healthcare, healthcare drawn from results-based, scientifically justifiable treatments, and not just the peddling of hot new drugs. Brawley's personal history – from a childhood in the gang-ridden streets of black Detroit, to the green hallways of Grady Memorial Hospital, the largest public hospital in the U.S., to the boardrooms of The American Cancer Society—results in a passionate view of medicine and the politics of illness in America - and a deep understanding of healthcare today. How We Do Harm is his well-reasoned manifesto for change.
Saving Lives Buying Time
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2004-09-09
Saving Lives Buying Time written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-09 with Medical categories.
For more than 50 years, low-cost antimalarial drugs silently saved millions of lives and cured billions of debilitating infections. Today, however, these drugs no longer work against the deadliest form of malaria that exists throughout the world. Malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africaâ€"currently just over one million per yearâ€"are rising because of increased resistance to the old, inexpensive drugs. Although effective new drugs called "artemisinins" are available, they are unaffordable for the majority of the affected population, even at a cost of one dollar per course. Saving Lives, Buying Time: Economics of Malaria Drugs in an Age of Resistance examines the history of malaria treatments, provides an overview of the current drug crisis, and offers recommendations on maximizing access to and effectiveness of antimalarial drugs. The book finds that most people in endemic countries will not have access to currently effective combination treatments, which should include an artemisinin, without financing from the global community. Without funding for effective treatment, malaria mortality could double over the next 10 to 20 years and transmission will intensify.