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Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure
by Regina Herzlinger
from McGraw-Hill
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 
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Overblown 
Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure The author has her ax to grind and twists and contorts the facts to fit her preconceived view. She thinks people are built like cars or computers or tv screens and tries to squeeze them all into one size. She also wants to have people make their own uneducated decisions about what health care to get when trained physicians still don't know what is and isn't the right thing.
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Who Killed Health Care
Twenty years ago on a cold November night, I was one of two nurses called into the operating room were the team preformed a c-section and delivered a healthy baby boy. While waiting for the mother to recover, I picked up a copy of JAMA in the doctors lounge, there I found an article authored by some PHD entitled: Stop the Charade. It was the authors contention if we made all the non-profit charter hospitals in the country for profit the government would save enough money (eliminating the tax subsidies) to... more info
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The Fox can protect the henhouse 
Who Killed Health Care is a tedious book that in the end would put the health care of Americans directly into the hands of profit-driven health insurance companies. Despite her recommendations about carrots and sticks to make these companies, hospitals and physicians more accountable she still thrusts consumers into the "free market" and relies on that genus of the capitalist economy which we now know has failed us. The magical thinking that she supports is that health insurance companies will do the right... more info
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Good topic.. good content, not written well though
This is definitely a book that gives you insight around Consumer-driven healthcare. But my only issue is that it doesnt flow well. A lot of times the same point was said over and over again. The Chapters and sub-sections dont really bridge well together... sometimes it just reads like a dramatic keynote speech.
Overall, I recommend the book- the concepts and issues in it are worth knowing about. But dont read it very closely- you'll get bored. Wish it was edited by a professional writer.
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