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Fixing American Healthcare: Wonkonians, Gekkonians, and the Grand Unification Theory of Healthcare
by Richard, N. Fogoros
from Publish or Perish DBS
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Everyone has the power to help improve America's healthcare 
We all know we're facing many challenges in our health care system. Certainly at a national level, we need solutions to deal with the fact that there are 50 million uninsured people in America.
But individually, many of us access our health care through a less-than-perfect system of health insurance and HMOs. And we are up against a challenge that is coming to be known as "covert rationing" -- a term coined Fixing American Healthcare's author Dr. Richard Fogoros, MD -- known as "DrRich." With covert... more info
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Thought provoking
Dr. Fogoros foregoes the usual cliches seen in proposing health care fixes. His analysis of our current system, including how we got here, is very insightful, and rings true to someone working in healthcare. American healthcare is very complex and won't be fixed in a sweeping reform, especially by the government, so it is difficult to propose changes in a scientific way, but he backs up his proposals with sufficient anecdotes and facts to make them plausible. A must read for someone interested in the future... more info
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On target, but simplistic 
Dr. Fogoros overarching message, that rationing exists already and must be openly addressed by any reform proposal is dead-on. When demand exceeds supply, as any high-school economics student will tell you, rationing occurs.
Beyond that, however, I found little else compelling in his treatise for reform. Much of what was presented was presented without reference or support. More could have been done to develop his position had he provided historical perspective, point and counterpoint arguments, or... more info
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Should be on the reading list for all doctors, patients, health care reformers
Dr. Fogoros goes where few other authors on health care reform/transformation can go. He does an extraordinary job taking us inside the health care system and exposes many frightening truths:
*We ration care, we just don't call it that
*Doctors have been strong armed into putting the interests of employers, insurance companies and the government ahead of patient interests
*Money talks and when your insurer is a for-profit company they are obligated to make the highest profits possible and... more info
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