Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis

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Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
by Tom Daschle
from Thomas Dunne Books

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• Tom Daschle Knows NOTHING About Healthcare
  This book is more about his self interests and promoting his career then about healthcare. He believes that our answer for healthcare is to insert a "unbiased" politically appointed board of doctors and economists between you and your doctor. There are already standards of care and government published guidelines. Having a new government entity publishing another set is redundant and not needed. Also, standards of care are to ensure that the lowest level of care is given not the highest. So with the new... more info

• The 'Federal Health Board'... A Practical Attempt at Health Care Reform.
  Tom Daschle's proposed 'Federal Health Board' would infuse paternalism into our current cost-inefficient health-care system. It stops short of regulation. Daschle is very mindful of the Clinton administration's failed attempt at reform in the '90s. He does not want to fail again. He wants to craft reform that has a chance of passage in Congress. In closing, on page 205, he says, "I have strong views on what an 'ideal' system would look like. But I'm not willing to sacrifice worthy improvements on the altar... more info

• Daschle Prescribes an Antidote to America's Sick Healthcare System
  Among westernized nations, America is an anomaly. We do not guarantee health care for our citizens. And we've convinced ourselves that the 'every person fend for themselves' approach is more than adequate.
  But incoming Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Daschle explains why America cannot continue pulling the wool over its eyes.
  In this book, the former Senator convincingly argues that we need fundamental health care reform which provides all people with the quality of health care... more info

• Daschle's Health Care Board
  Tom Daschle gives a good review of where health care reform legislation has failed in the past half century and has a very reasoned explanation for why the US needs the equivalent of the Federal Reserve Board for 21st century health care. Recommended for all those interested in the future of the US health care system

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