Health Care HalfTruths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality (American Political Challenges) - Softcover

Engelhard, Carolyn L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0742558304 ISBN 13: 9780742558304

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2008

Synopsis

Health Care HalfTruths shows the ways in which American health care is tarnished and ways in which it shines, explaining that if we are going to make our health care system work, we must begin with the truth. In this book, Dr. Arthur Garson identifies twenty myths about the U.S. health care system and uses his extensive knowledge and keen insights to blow them apart.

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Review:

Garson and Engelhard make a fundamental point that all policymakers, business leaders, and healthcare stakeholders must hear: change is possible. Despite all the myths, half truths, and real-world problems, we can build a 21st century intelligent health system that saves lives and saves money for every American. The authors pull no punches, and by doing so make an important and lasting contribution.--Newt Gingrich

I could not put this book down! Every American should read it!--Wayne Turnage, Deputy Chief of Staff for Virginia Governor Tim Kaine

Garson and Engelhard...offer an excellent, well-documented text...the book offers extensive up-to-date references and resources separate from the straightforward text. Summing Up: Recommended. All Levels.--J.E. Thompson, Western Michigan University "CHOICE "

Health Care Half-Truths is a fascinating book dealing with one of the most important and seemingly intractable issues of our time in the United States: equitable and high quality health care. . . . The book is highly recommended to students and teachers as well as policy makers, health care workers and anyone interested in a deeper understanding of today's health care dilemma.--David J. Skorton, M.D., President, Cornell University

Health Care Half-Truths contributes significantly to the debate over health reform by correcting the biggest myths about health care in the United States. Dr. Garson and Ms. Engehard answer the false perception that the U.S. offers some of the worst health care in the developed world and even that preventive care always saves money, for example. By starting with a clearer diagnosis of the problems in the health sector, they believe policymakers will be able to build on its strengths and correct its weaknesses. The book gives policymakers a big dose of reality to guide their decisions.--Grace-Marie Turner, President, Galen Institute

Before one can make a cure, one has to get the right diagnosis. This book is an outstanding addition to the debate on fixing American healthcare with its thoughtful exposure of myths with well researched reality. It is a must read for the public, payers, physicians and policy makers.--J. James Rohack M.D, director, Scott and White Center for Healthcare Policy

Health care now accounts for one-sixth of the entire US economy, yet it is misunderstood by almost everyone. By challenging common myths about health care, Garson and Engelhard artfully help readers of all levels of expertise gain a far better appreciation of the strengths as well as the problems of our health care system.--Stuart M. Butler, vice president for domestic policy, The Heritage Foundation

A realistic perspective on our health care system that is highly informative yet refreshingly optimistic when it comes to needed change.--Steven A. Wartman M.D., PhD, president and chief executive officer, Association of Academic Health Centers

How exhilarating it is to read a book on health care policy that dispels delusions--that prevention always saves money, that we can stop growth of health care spending without rationing, that doctors always know what they are doing, that the uninsured and poor always get at least emergency care, and the biggest delusion of all--that there is no politically achievable way to extend health insurance coverage to all Americans.--Henry J. Aaron, The Brookings Institution

Health Care Half-Truths is a provocative and important book--easy to digest and stimulating to the mind! By challenging the conventional wisdom, it forces all of us to rethink what we know about American health care.--Karen Davis, President, Commonwealth Fund

About the Author:

Arthur Garson, Jr., MD, MPH, is Executive Vice President and Provost of the University of Virginia and previously was dean of the University's School of Medicine. He is a member of the National Academics Institute of Medicine. He has served as president of the American College of Cardiology and was appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to chair the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He continues to practice medicine, caring for children with heart disease. Carolyn L. Engelhard, MPA, is assistant professor of medical education and a health policy analyst in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. In addition, she directs the Master of Science program in clinical research and provides technical and consultative services to state health and Medicaid agencies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0742558304
• ISBN 13: 9780742558304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314