Make Healthcare Great Again

If you want to know who is to blame for our broken healthcare system and the high costs of healthcare…THERE IS PLENTY OF BLAME TO GO AROUND!..INSURERS who charge high premiums for insurance that is sometimes worse than having no insurance at all. These companies often deny payment for the treatment patients need...HOSPITALS that keep patients in the dark about quality of care, costs of testing and procedures and all the choices patients have...DRUG COMPANIES that charge 5, 10, or 20 X more for the same drug in the United States than they charge in other countries...PRIVATE EQUITY owned staffing companies a.k.a. contract management groups that add additional costs and add little value to patients...LEGAL / TORT system that adds hundreds of billions of dollars to the cost of healthcare each year...GOVERNMENT that is inefficient and influenced by special interest groups that makes ridiculous laws and regulations that reduce access to care and make costs artificially higher... PEOPLE who make poor and unhealthy diet and lifestyle choices. It is pointed out that as much as 50% or more of illnesses could prevented or reduced by changing our lifestyles and diets...The United States is #1 in healthcare spending but dead last in healthcare when compared to other industrialized countries...If we want better healthcare, to live healthier lives and spend less, we need personal responsibility, accountability of everyone in healthcare and incentives and disincentives that encourage healthy choices and discourages bad behavior. This is a common theme the author conveys throughout the book and is applicable to everyone in healthcare.In Make Healthcare Great Again, Edward Shaheen MD, a board certified emergency physician and well-known efficiency expert in healthcare, who has treated tens of thousands of patients, does a great job explaining chapter by chapter the role insurers, hospitals, drug companies, government, the public and others play in our unaffordable and unacceptable healthcare system... He not only points out the problems but also offers common sense, innovative and creative solutions that can improve healthcare and make it much more affordable. He does so in plain language that is easy to understand and makes the book hard to put down. Make Healthcare Great Again is a must read for anyone who wants better health and to Make Healthcare Great Again.