Download or read book Health Care Reform and Freedom written by Beasley and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is probably no better book in regards to Health Care Reform as "Health Care Reform And Freedom: A True Story," written by Pamela Beasley. It is a true story that goes in-depth in helping many prepare for making the very best personal decisions about health care and government-public run options. In '2001, Pamela Beasley worked as a health care Provider under a federal-state run Medicaid program. In an unexpected twist of events, two years later she was incarcerated and convicted of healthcare fraud and money laundering. With her revelations in the book, she shows an astonishing and remarkable journey, in going from having a successful small business to serving a seven year sentence in federal prison. Ms Beasley shows this harrowing account that provides details about how a few minor mistakes in her small business, became a complex federal legal case. Making no claims on being a healthcare reform expert, Ms. Beasley instead offers the details of her true story, many facts which are astounding; and in the process, presents essential elements for making your best healthcare reform related decisions, with clarity. Imagine yourself not only reading a great true story, but also experiencing an adventure. Now is the time to read it. Then get ready to embark upon a conversation, sure to become a relevant theme for health care reform and government public options.
Download or read book The Freedom Plan written by John F Perry M D and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the political spectrum, here is what readers say about THE FREEDOM PLAN: An American Answer to Health Care Reform: "By reading this book, even I can understand what is wrong with health care in our country. I now also understand how it can be fixed. Dr. Perry has done a great service in writing this book. I wish all who are really concerned would read it. Bravo, Dr. Perry." M. Semcheski, Aerospace Project Manager, New Jersey "The Freedom Plan delivers an invaluable history of how America became mired in the current health care crisis and then proposes a reasonable alternative to Obamacare. His solution is a plan whereby patients and doctors reestablish the direct relationship that has been corrupted by the interposition of big insurance companies into health care decisions. Moreover, he has a practical solution to pay for health care that eliminates much of the inefficiency embedded in the current system." C.M. Pushaw, Novelist, Pennsylvania "I recommend this book to all who are thinking that the government health care is good. I especially would like people in the medical field to read it." L. Beckman, teacher, Phoenixville, PA "A refreshing perspective from a practicing physician which drives to the heart of the matter - the loss of liberty and freedom in the very decisions of one of the most personal aspects of our daily lives: choosing the type of medical care and from whom and how much we think it is worth based upon free market principles. I found it to be ... easy-to-read, with many analogies and anecdotes that affirm everyday life. Dr. Perry takes the reader on a much needed, albeit short, history lesson of how we ended up in this mess .... He then provides a comprehensive game plan. Will it be an easy fix? That answer remains to be seen. Is it doable? Yes. Have an open mind and take a serious, hard look at what it means to be truly free. With freedom comes responsibility." Teresa Shelton, ret., USN, LT, NC "Dr. Perry has dissected the issues of healthcare in America, explains them in easy to understand language, then lays out a comparatively simple and well-conceived plan to change the areas of dysfunction that have brought our country and its healthcare to near disaster. His plan touches all of the areas that I, as a practicing family physician, have moaned and whined about to those who would listen for the past two decades. The plan will be difficult to implement, for no one wants change or hardship. No one wants sacrifice when the status quo is easier, and no one in government wants to hear that they have screwed it all up for so many years. "There are plenty of culprits in the many problems of our healthcare; the most important is the one you see in the mirror every day. Dr. Perry is right, it is up to us to make intelligent sacrifices and demand it of others to make a better place for our children and grandchildren. "THE FREEDOM PLAN is a straight-forward read. It is not highly technical so as to confuse, as many concepts are explained as comfortably and casually as if he were having coffee with you. I wish him luck in spreading his message and wish that we could get copies of this in ALL legislators' hands, from the state to the federal level. As you interpret his words, you see his intentions; he cares greatly about the direction of the country. He is a patriot." Jeffrey Baker, M.D., State College, Pennsylvania "Dr. Perry is trying to humanize the human race once again..." P. Webber, Ibiza, Spain CAUTION: Proceed at your own peril. This book is not for the faint-hearted. Reading THE FREEDOM PLAN will change the way you think forever.
Download or read book Back to Reform written by Charles J. Dougherty and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back to Reform is a persuasive discussion of the moral values that spurred the movement for health care reform and that remain insistent today. The book is also a critique of exclusive reliance on marketplace reforms for improvements in health care. By examining the values at the heart of the need for health care reform, Dougherty displays the incompatibilities between these values and those related to the marketplace.
Download or read book Solidarity Responsibility and Freedom written by Peter William McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom of Contract written by Clark C. Havighurst and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform written by Andrew Koppelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Justice John Roberts stunned the nation by upholding the Affordable Care Act--more commonly known as Obamacare. But legal experts observed that the decision might prove a strategic defeat for progressives. Roberts grounded his decision on Congress's power to tax. He dismissed the claim that it is allowed under the Constitution's commerce clause, which has been the basis of virtually all federal regulation--now thrown in doubt. In The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform, Andrew Koppelman explains how the Court's conservatives embraced the arguments of a fringe libertarian legal movement bent on eviscerating the modern social welfare state. They instead advocate what Koppelman calls a "tough luck" philosophy: if you fall on hard times, too bad for you. He argues that the rule they proposed--that the government can't make citizens buy things--has nothing to do with the Constitution, and that it is in fact useless to stop real abuses of power, as it was tailor-made to block this one law after its opponents had lost in the legislature. He goes on to dismantle the high court's construction of the commerce clause, arguing that it almost crippled America's ability to reverse rising health-care costs and shrinking access. Koppelman also places the Affordable Care Act within a broader historical context. The Constitution was written to increase central power, he notes, after the failure of the Articles of Confederation. The Supreme Court's previous limitations on Congressional power have proved unfortunate: it has struck down anti-lynching laws, civil-rights protections, and declared that child-labor laws would end "all freedom of commerce, and . . . our system of government [would] be practically destroyed." Both somehow survived after the court revisited these precedents. Koppelman notes that the arguments used against Obamacare are radically new--not based on established constitutional principles. Ranging from early constitutional history to potential consequences, this is the definitive postmortem of this landmark case.
Download or read book Protection Freedom and Choice written by Mary Helen Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healthcare Reform written by David G. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare and healthcare reform are critical for the American people to understand. However, to understand what these are, requires certain questions to be asked and answered. Why does healthcare cost so much and what can be done to reduce the cost? Can access to care be increased? What is the quality of healthcare in the U.S. compared with the quality of care in other developed countries? "What is Medicaid and Medicaid expansion? How many people are uninsured? Why are they uninsured? What are the programs of Obamacare, Medicare for All, Public Option, previous Republican Congressional plans, and a Free Market healthcare system? Can a Free Market healthcare system exist? How can it be set up? What is the role of the people versus the role of government? What is the basic unit of healthcare? Can governmental healthcare intervention be detrimental to this? How can the issue of pre-existing conditions be solved? Why have pharmaceutical costs gone up? What do the American people feel about healthcare? There is one other question that must be addressed. Truth and honesty allow Freedom to occur: Is Freedom at the center of healthcare or is Freedom distorted and constricted? This is the question that must be answered. Only the American people can answer it". --From Amazon.
Download or read book The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Healthcare Reform written by Andrew Koppelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Chief Justice John Roberts' upholding of "Obamacare," and shows how his decision was based on libertarian ideals and may not be a victory, but instead a blow, to progressives.
Download or read book Markets and Medicine written by Susan Giaimo and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo explores how countries pursue diverse policy responses and how such variations reflect distinctive institutions, actors, and reform politics in each country. In Britain, the Thatcher government's plan to inject a market into the state-administered national health service resulted in a circumscribed experiment orchestrated from above. In Germany, the Kohl government sought to repair defects in the corporatist arrangement with doctors and insurers, thus limiting the market experiment and designing it to enhance the solidarity of the national health insurance system. In the United States, private market actors foiled Clinton's bid to expand the federal government's role in the private health care system through managed competition and national insurance. But market reform continued, albeit led by private employers and with government officials playing a reactive role. Actors and institutions surrounding the existing health care settlement in each country created particular reform politics that either militated against or fostered the deployment of competition. The finding that major transformations are occurring in private as well as public systems of social protection suggests that studies of social policy change expand their focus beyond statutory welfare state programs. The book will interest political scientists and policymakers concerned with welfare state reform in advanced industrial societies; social scientists interested in the changing balance among state, market, and societal interests in governance; and health policy researchers, health policymakers, and health care professionals. Susan Giaimo is an independent scholar. She completed her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also earned an MSc in Politics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, with the Politics and Government of Western Europe as the branch of study. After completing her doctorate, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, University of California at Berkeley, and the Robert Bosch Foundation Scholars Program in Comparative Public Policy and Comparative Institutions, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, Johns Hopkins University. She taught in the Political Science Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for five years. During that period she won the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Founder's Prize for "Adapting the Welfare State: The Case of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States," a paper she coauthored with Philip Manow. She has also worked for health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and medical practices in the United States.
Download or read book Common Sense about Health Care Reform in America written by John Geyman and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the same way that Thomas Paine made a strong argument in his pamphlet, Common Sense, for people in the Thirteen Colonies to gain independence from England in 1775-1776, this pamphlet takes a similar approach, also based on simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense. Here, 241 years later, the subject is different but parallel to his goal is to have the American people gain freedom from the corporate masters in our medical-industrial complex that take their exorbitant profits on the backs of sick Americans, their families, and taxpayers. We detail markers of today's health care crisis, summarize lessons we can learn from previous reform failures, and compare three financing alternatives: (1) the Affordable Care Act, (2) the GOP's American Health Care Act, and (3) national health insurance under Medicare for All. The latter is described as the only way to achieve sustainable universal coverage to comprehensive health care. This will be
Download or read book Healthcare Reform in America written by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable handbook makes the U.S. health care system understandable, reviews the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or "Obamacare," describes past health care reform efforts, and covers the important organizations and people involved in U.S. health care reform. Why does the United States produce poorer outcomes for Americans in terms of health care than most other developed countries that spend a lower percentage of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care? Should health insurance be private or should it be managed by the government? The second edition of Healthcare Reform in America: A Reference Handbook addresses these complex and difficult questions and many more in its thorough treatment of one of the most controversial issues in contemporary American discourse. The work provides a broad introduction to the history and key issues in the development and reform of the U.S. health care system. It then addresses the recent passage of the Affordable Care Act and the myriad of significant expected changes due to the Act, thereby providing readers with information essential to understanding the current issues regarding health care reform. This work serves as a valuable resource to high school and college students as well as to general readers wanting to learn about the history and current focus of health care reform in the United States.
Download or read book The Politics of Health Care Reform written by James A. Morone and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinguished collection stands out from the recent flurry of books on health reform by its sustained and sophisticated analysis of the political dimension. In The Politics of Health Care Reform, some of America's best-known political scientists, historians, and legal scholars make sense of our most turbulent policy issue. They dig below the jargon and minutiae to explore the enduring questions of American politics, government reform, and health care. The Politics of Health Care Reform explains how successful reforms occur in the United States and shows what is unique about health care issues. Theoretically informed, politically astute, historically nuanced, this volume takes an inventory of our health policy infrastructure. Here is an account of the institutions, ideas, and interests that shape health policy in the 1990s: Congress, the federal courts, interest groups, state governments, the public bureaucracy, business (large and small), the insurance industry, the medical profession. The volume offers a fresh look at such critical matters as public opinion, the politics of race and gender, and the lessons we can draw from other nations. The Politics of Health Care Reform is the definitive collection of political science essays about health care. Expanded from two special issues of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, the most prominent scholarly journal in the field it helped create, this collection will enliven the present debate over health reform and instruct everyone who is concerned about the future of American health care. Contributors. Lawrence Brown, Robert Evans, William Glaser, Colleen Grogan, Robert Hackey, Lawrence Jacobs, Nancy Jecker, Taeku Lee, Joan Lehman, David McBride, Ted Marmor, Cathie Jo Martin, James A. Morone, Mark Peterson, David Rochefort, Rand Rosenblatt, David Rothman, Joan Ruttenberg, Mark Schlesinger, Theda Skocpol, Michael Sparer, Deborah Stone, Kenneth Thorpe
Download or read book Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers two programs that provide benefits based on disability: the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. This report analyzes health care utilizations as they relate to impairment severity and SSA's definition of disability. Health Care Utilization as a Proxy in Disability Determination identifies types of utilizations that might be good proxies for "listing-level" severity; that is, what represents an impairment, or combination of impairments, that are severe enough to prevent a person from doing any gainful activity, regardless of age, education, or work experience.
Download or read book Issue Title Freedom Responsibility and Care Hong Kong s Health Care Reform written by Ruiping Fan and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Freedom Responsibility and Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rights Based Approaches to Public Health written by Elvira Beracochea, MD, MPH and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! "With great timing, the editors of Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health offer a targeted and innovative strategy to combat global health problems. Balanced, comprehensive, and steeped in the historical traditions of human rights, the book persuasively moves the reader from abstract conceptions of inalienable human rights to evidence-based, pragmatic solutions that highlight the systematic integration of human rights principles in human development work."--PsycCRITIQUES "The human rights framework as eloquently described in this book offers a new way for us to think about how we approach our work: from deciding when and how to intervene, to how we plan, the goals we establish, and the metrics we use to gauge the success of our efforts. Public health instructors will find many of the chapters useful for illustrating, in very concrete ways, the link between human rights and public health, providing students (and practitioners) with a new framework for analyzing public health topics and for designing and evaluating interventions. Ultimately, civil rights and civil liberties are only of value when exercised. This book will contribute to the advance of human rights by leading increasing numbers of public health practitioners to advocate for, and promote, their realization."Score: 95, 4 stars --Doody's Medical Reviews "Rights Based Approaches to Public Health provides a new perspective on addressing public health problems. It is an evidence based and cutting edge approach that provides important insights into solving ethical dilemmas. It is essential reading for anyone interested in ensuring health equity and justice." Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP Executive Director of the American Public Health Association "At root, those working in health and human rights are both animated by a similar concern: the well-being of individuals and populations. The book will be an invaluable asset to both communities as they work to achieve their common goal." From the foreword by Paul Hunt UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health (2002-2008) Rights-Based Approaches to Public Health presents a variety of public health professionals who utilize rights-based approaches in their work, the challenges they face, and the lessons they have learned. This expansive volume includes rights-based approaches with a variety of populations and across international settings. It explores environmental issues such as the right to clean air, water, and food. It examines the rights of the vulnerable, including women and children. It also includes work in difficult locations, such as prisons, high-conflict areas, and New Orleans post-Katrina. The useful tools and diverse case studies in this text provide the best models available for those interested in implementing or furthering a rights-based agenda. Key Features: Contains an overview of the key international documents regarding the right to health Provides an exploration of the efficacy of rights-based approaches to health Covers professional and ethical issues in rights-based approaches Presents systemic and policy implications, including a rights-based approach to health care reform Includes global case studies from a wide variety of noted organizations and practitioners
