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What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
Thomas Creations Publishing
February 2008
On Sale: February 19, 2008
240 pages ISBN: 0312383010 EAN: 9780312383015 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A much-needed and hard-hitting plan, from one of the great
Democratic minds of our time, to reform America’s broken
health-care system. Undoubtedly, the biggest domestic policy issue in the coming
years will be America’s health-care system. Millions of
Americans go without medical care because they can’t afford
it, and many others are mired in debt because they can’t pay
their medical bills. It’s hard to think of another public
policy problem that has lingered unaddressed for so long.
Why have we failed to solve a problem that is such a high
priority for so many citizens? Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle believes the
problem is rooted in the complexity of the health-care issue
and the power of the interest groups—doctors, hospitals,
insurers, drug companies, researchers, patient
advocates—that have a direct stake in it. Rather than simply
pointing out the major flaws and placing blame, Daschle
offers key solutions and creates a blueprint for solving the
crisis. Daschle’s solution lies in the Federal Reserve Board, which
has overseen the equally complicated financial system with
great success. A Fed-like health board would offer a public
framework within which a private health-care system can
operate more effectively and efficiently—insulated from
political pressure yet accountable to elected officials and
the American people. Daschle argues that this independent
board would create a single standard of care and exert
tremendous influence on every other provider and payer, even
those in the private sector. After decades of failed incremental measures, the American
health-care system remains fundamentally broken and requires
a comprehensive fix. With his bold and forward-looking
plan, Daschle points us to the solution.
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