5.0 out of 5 stars. The Word is Out - The Emperor (Health Care Debate) Has No Clothes, November 11, 2013 By Ilya Valkovsky This review is from: Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It (Kindle Edition) . Written for a general (but thinking) audience, this book could really turn around all public discourse on health care and become a seminal work on the subject. The divisive health care debate of recent years is centered over WHO should shoulder astronomic medical costs. The issue of taming the exorbitant prices and costs is relegated to the side issue of waste and abuse. David Goldhill takes a new and different approach. He puts aside the standard assumption that health care is somehow exempt from the normal rules of economic activity. He focuses on WHY the costs became so exorbitant in the first place. Goldhill shows persuasively that the costs are the result of the very design of our current medical system, and the only way to bring the costs down to earth is to REPLACE entirely the current economic arrangements of our medicine - both the private insurance system and Medicare/Medicaid. Thats a book of new ideas. These ideas are breakthrough innovative, brilliant, deeply thought through; analysis superb. As with all things new and complex, it requires an effort to understand. If you have any background or interest in economics, even the economics of everyday life, give it more consideration. amazon/Catastrophic-Care-Everything-Think-Health/dp/034580273X/ref=la_B00DW8FO1C_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1414844246&sr=1-1
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