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Friday, August 24, 2007

"Who Killed Health Care?"

I read a review of new popular book on Health Policy (below.) Opinions about health policy and alternative medicine are often intertwined as both are impacted by similar influence.

I am still trying to decide where is the happy medium between health care controlled by "the managed care companies, hospital systems, large employers, and elitist academics" and health care with absolutely none of the checks and balances or consumer protections that such entities provide.
-dras


Who Killed Health Care?
By Regina Herzlinger,
Harvard Business School
McGraw-Hill
304 pp
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-HealthCare-Americas-Consumer-Driven/dp/0071487808

"She starts right out by declaring war on the health care establishment - the managed care companies, hospital systems, large employers, and elitist academics who think only they are smart enough to decide what care consumers should receive. She is explicit - "You and I are the victims of untrammeled vanity, greed, and self-interest of those meant to protect us." She goes on, "The real issue here is power: the less you and I know about the facts, the greater the power of those in the know - the hospitals, the insurers, and the health policy researchers."
--excerpt from a review by Greg Scandlin of Consumers for Health Care Choices. http://www.chcchoices.org

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