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WHY THIS SITE?
Read about the the hideous overcharges
that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center inflicted on me because I was uninsured.
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BOOKS
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"Thousands of Americans lose their health insurance every day. Health care costs continue to spiral out of control. No
one is secure." - - American Medical Student Assn.
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"HEALTH CARE MELTDOWN"
Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System by Bob LeBow, M.D.
Revised and updated by
Dr. C. Rocky White
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"AS SICK AS IT GETS"
The Shocking Reality of
America's Healthcare: A Diagnosis and Treatment Plan
by Rudolph J. Mueller,M.D.
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"BLEEDING THE PATIENT"
The Consequences of Corporate Healthcare
by David Himmelstein, M.D., Steffie Woodhandler, M.D.
Ida Hellander, M.D.
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"INSURING AMERICA'S HEALTH" Principles and Recommendations
by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies
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We do not sell books nor are commissioned affiliates. The links provided is for your convenience only. You
can search the Internet for other sales outlets or go to your public library. We don't care where you get the books or reports as long as you read them.
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RESEARCH
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Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured (ERIU)
ERIU is based at the University of Michigan and is directed by health economist Catherine McLaughlin, Ph.D. The initiative is funded by
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). ERIU has funded over 50 research projects.
http://www.umich.edu/~eriu/
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State Health Facts - The
Kaiser Family Foundation online site for the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation www.statehealthfacts.kff.org
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WEB LINKS TO HEALTH CARE REFORM
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JOURNALS, MAGAZINES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
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HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
"The Cost to the Nation, the States and the District of Columbia, with State-Specific Estimates of Potential Savings" by David U. Himmelstein, M.D., Steffie Woolhandler,
M.D., M.P.H. and Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D.
From the Division of Social and Community Medicine, Department of Medicine, The Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Medical
School, Cambridge, MA and The Public Citizen Health Research Group, Washington, DC
"The U.S. wastes more on health care bureaucracy than it would cost to provide health care to all of the
uninsured. Administrative expenses will consume at least $399.4 billion out of total health expenditures of $1,660.5 billion in 2003. Streamlining administrative overhead to Canadian levels would
save approximately $286.0 billion in 2003, $6,940 for each of the 41.2 million Americans who were uninsured as of 2001. This is substantially more than would be needed to provide full insurance
coverage." Continued
INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
"Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations"
Lack of health
insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States. Although America leads the world in spending on health care,
it is the only wealthy, industrialized nation
that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage. To help policy-makers, elected officials, and others judge and compare proposals to extend coverage to the nation's 43 million uninsured, the
Institute of Medicine of the National Academies offers a set of guiding principles and a checklist in a new report, Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations. Continued
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
Proposal of The Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National
Health Insurance JAMA. 2003;290:798-805.
The United States spends more than twice as much on health care as the average of other developed
nations, all of which boast universal coverage. Yet more than
41 million Americans have no health insurance. Many more are underinsured. Confronted by the rising
costs and capabilities of modern medicine, other nations have chosen national health insurance (NHI).
The United States alone treats health care as a commodity distributed according
to the ability to pay, rather than as a social service to be distributed according to medical need. In this market-driven system, insurers and providers compete not so much
by increasing quality or lowering costs, but by avoiding unprofitable patients and shifting costs back to patients or to other payers. This creates the paradox
of a health care system based on avoiding the sick. It generates huge
administrative costs that, along with profits, divert resources from clinical care to the demands of business. In addition, burgeoning satellite businesses, such as
consulting firms and marketing companies, consume an increasing fraction of the health care dollar. Continued
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