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Corporatizing American Health Care: How We Lost Our Health Care System
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Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours. This shift has created a massive and at times redundant workforce that frustrates patients, as well as physicians, nurses, and administrative staff. Health care costs the United States over $3 trillion each year and consumes over 18% of the country's gross domestic product. That's more than $11,000 for each person in the country each year--more than double what it costs in most Western European countries to deliver equal or even better care. In Corporatizing American Health Care, Robert W. Derlet, MD, traces the progression of health care policy in the United States. How, he asks, has US health care transformed from bedside medicine--a model of small practices and patient-focused care--into corporate medicine, which prioritizes profit and deals with both patient care and outcomes as billing codes? Arguing that the US Congress is the root of the problem, he describes how Congress has failed to enact legislation to prevent corporate monopolies in the health care industry. Instead, corrupted by large campaign donations and corporate lobbyists, Congress has crafted loopholes benefiting corporations and harming people.
Corporatizing American Health Care: How We Lost Our Health Care System
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Robert W Derlet is Professor Emeritus of Department of Emergency Medicine at University of California Davis. His research interests include emergency department overcrowding, zoonotic infections, wilderness medicine, and Infectious disease problems in the Emergency Department.
Source: University of California, Davis
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