Summary: A Second Opinion E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 19

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of Arnold Relman's book: "A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care".

This complete summary of "A Second Opinion" by Arnold Relman, a respected physician and healthcare advocate, explains why the book's author believes that the U.S. health system is failing. He criticises the private markets who support it simply to grow revenue and argues that it is in urgent need of restructuring and refocusing on the care and needs of patients.

Added-value of this summary:
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• Understand the problems within the American healthcare system
• Expand your knowledge of American society

To learn more, read "A Second Opinion" and discover where Relman believes the problems with American healthcare lie, and how solutions could be found and implemented.

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Book Presentation: A Second Opinion by Arnold S. Relman, M.D.

Book Abstract

In A Second Opinion, Dr. Arnold Relman explains why he believes the U.S. healthcare system is failing. It is run like a business, increasingly focused on generating income for insurers and providers rather than providing care for patients. Meanwhile, 46 million Americans are without insurance and health care expenditures are rising at a rate of seven percent a year, three times the rate of inflation.

Relman asks the medical profession to evolve a new structure for healthcare based on voluntary private contracts between individuals and not-for-profit, multi-specialty groups of physicians. In his plan, physicians would be paid mainly by salaries and would submit no bills for their services and all health care facilities would be not-for-profit. The savings from reduced administrative overhead and the elimination of billing fraud would be enormous.

About the Author

Dr. Arnold S. Relman is Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and the former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. He received his M.D. from Columbia University in 1946 and has taught at several distinguished medical schools. He was appointed by The White House to serve on the Health Professionals Review Group.

Summary of A Second Opinion (Arnold S. Relman, M.D.)

Introduction

Each year, Americans spend 16 percent of the GDP, about $2 trillion, on health care. Despite this enormous cost, only about 85 percent of Americans are covered by health insurance and among those covered, only 30 percent have “full coverage.” Seventy percent of Americans have huge deductibles, large exclusions and significantly high co-pays. Even with coverage, it is possible to become financially overwhelmed by medical expenses. In fact, the number one reason for personal bankruptcy and credit default in America is unexpected and catastrophic health crises. This problem is even worse for the uninsured that have no buffer between themselves and the health care industry.