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Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong David Goldhill 1st edition
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Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong
David Goldhill
In 2007 David Goldhill?s father died from infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill, for several hundred thousand dollars, was paid by Medicare. Angered, Goldhill became determined to understand how it was possible that well-trained personnel equipped with world-class technologies could be responsible for such inexcusable carelessness?and how a business that failed so miserably could still be rewarded with full payment.
Catastrophic Care is the eye-opening result. In it Goldhill explodes the myth that Medicare and insurance coverage can make care cheaper and improve our health, and shows how efforts to reform the system, including the Affordable Care Act, will do nothing to address the waste of the health care industry, which currently costs the country nearly $2.5 trillion annually and in which an estimated 200,000 Americans die each year from preventable errors. Catastrophic Care proposes a completely new approach, one that will change the way you think about one of our most pressing national problems.
400 pages, 2 ILLUSTRATIONS
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | November 5, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780345802736 |
| Publishers | Random House USA Inc |
| Pages | 400 |
| Dimensions | 131 × 203 × 21 mm · 294 g |
| Language | English |
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