Understanding the Healthcare Machine
1st Edition
Published on 28. February 2011
7 pages
978-0-13-269824-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is the eBook version of the printed book.
This Element is an excerpt from Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia. Available in print and digital formats.
Understand how the colossal U.S. healthcare machine gobbles our wealth and destroys our competitiveness--without making us healthier.
Ever wonder how the world's richest country can spend more than $2.5 trillion on healthcare annually, but still not cover more than 50 million of its citizens? Are you concerned that the huge, complex, open-ended healthcare reform law signed by President Obama didn't solve anything and simply sets the stage for higher costs and more upheaval? If so, read on....
This Element is an excerpt from Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia. Available in print and digital formats.
Understand how the colossal U.S. healthcare machine gobbles our wealth and destroys our competitiveness--without making us healthier.
Ever wonder how the world's richest country can spend more than $2.5 trillion on healthcare annually, but still not cover more than 50 million of its citizens? Are you concerned that the huge, complex, open-ended healthcare reform law signed by President Obama didn't solve anything and simply sets the stage for higher costs and more upheaval? If so, read on....
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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-13-269824-5 (9780132698245)
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Person
Dr. Douglas A. Perednia has been a medical internist, dermatologist, medical informatics researcher, healthcare entrepreneur, and creator of several non-profits. In the 1990s, he was principal investigator on digital imaging and telecommunications research projects for the National Cancer Institute and National Library of Medicine, and founded the Telemedicine Research Center. Later, he founded Kietra Corporation to develop versatile, low-cost technologies to improve patient care and reduce overhead. In 2007, he created U.S. Healthcare Constitution.org, a non-profit dedicated to injecting non-partisan reason, dialogue, and the "big picture" into America's healthcare debate.
