America's Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone | 
 enlarge | Authors: J. Patrick Rooney, Dan Perrin
Publisher: Wiley
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ISBN: 0470275723
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America's Health Care Crisis Solved, highlights the major pitfalls of the current American health care system and show why, without changes, health care costs will soon demolish the American economy. The alternative they address includes bringing the self-interest of the American consumer into the purchase of health care. The authors examine how an insured family's spending can be reduced by as much as the deductible and how for the uninsured, the government could stand in place of an employer to pay part of the cost of health insurance. Page by page, Rooney and Perrin skillfully explain their innovative plan for effectively achieving these goals and lowering costs.
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America - the Beacon. In time of Global healthcare crisis. May 6, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
America's Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone is very rare book. Unlike many others on the subject it is very easy to read, very easy to understand and very hard not to believe in. It goes to the root of the well-known domestic problem and hits the nail right on its head. The authors were writing this "compact" book with their lives. Legendary civil-rights champion Pat Rooney and known inside the beltway "locomotive" - Dan Perrin, dedicated their lives to do something decent and worthy in most not-transparent business in the US - murky health insurance world. They brought in "fair-care" approach,. They unmasked the hospitals "Wonderland" world where consumer's dollar devaluates and fluctuates in accordance with woodoo practices of the greedy managements.
Because of their sustained support and dedication the long legislative struggle finally gave birth to most appealing and sound healthcare product of the new century - Health Saving Accounts - HSAs. But what is their more important achievement is, that they did their best to unlock insurance best secret kept Pandora box and clear the way for further conservative healthcare innovations which so far is known by the term - Consumer Driven Health Care.
This laconic, as only the truth could be, book is a must-to-read book for healthcare crowd and bankers, politicians and everyone who is not indifferent to challenging future vis-a-vis most painful domestic problem. Unfortunately, like almost everything in our global world, healthcare crisis is also global. It is not exaggeration to say that there is no country on the face of the earth whose healthcare system is not in crisis. (I do not mean the very poor countries - they do not have healthcare at all). Great Britain calculated that if no changes made in couple of decades their GNP will be not enough to cover healthcare cost. Same problem in famous for its free healthcare - Canada, European countries and other's in developed world.
America remains the only super-power not because we produce more say, sneakers, but because we produce more technologies second to none. America's Health Care Crisis Solved unleashes innovative creativity not only domestically. Other countries working to solve their problems always were looking at us. And this book is a good beacon in eternal struggle - individualism and freedom vs. collectivism and so called equality. Strangely enough, let's admit, that this struggle is most pronounced here in the United States. Ironically, Hilary-care phenomenon could not even exist in former Soviet bloc countries. Because they do not want to hear about variations of governmentally managed "free" healthcare systems. They are sick of it, they've lived under it. No wonder countries like Poland, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and others are in a process of adopting consumer driven healthcare approach including medical saving accounts.
For them America is still a beacon, and therefore for me authors of America's Health Care Crisis Solved are Great Americans, indeed.
TG - former recipient of Soviet "free healthcare"
Governments Create Shortages May 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Why does the government only create shortages and surpluses? The answer is quite simple: by subsidizing producers, the government gives producers an incentive to increase supply above actual demand, creating a surplus, and, by subsidizing consumers (including health care consumers), the government gives consumers an incentive to increase demand above the actual supply, creating a shortage, or, in the case of our health care system, a crisis.
This book outlines a plan to give consumers an incentive to reduce their demand while assuring themselves of proper health care. This book is brilliant in its simplicity.
Easy to understand May 2, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just got this book and found it to be very helpful. I've spent a lot of time and effort researching health care and the different options but i keep finding two problems:
1) Nothing makes clear sense and much of the book it is above my head
2) The answer is usually politically charged
I found that unlike the other books I read, this one was very easy to understand and the argument was very balanced. I have to say I highly recommend it.
Read This Book! April 30, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you are concerned about the future of our nation's health care system, you must read this book! Rooney and Perrin have provided easy-to-understand, common-sense solutions in a health care book that is actually a fast read. No PhD needed. Just an open mind.
Finally, a balanced solution April 29, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Everywhere I turn, everyone's talking about the health care problem but no one ever offers any viable solutions.
Well, after reading this book, that's changed. The authors actually present a solution that resonates with your mind, as well as with your conscience. A fair & reasonable approach, I think it would be a disservice to not read it.
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