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Who Killed HealthCare? : America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and the Consumer-Driven Cure | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Category: EBooks
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 3224
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Dewey Decimal Number: 362
ASIN: B000WE2LEC
Publication Date: April 17, 2007
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Product Description
In the battle for U.S. health care, patients and doctors are losing. Who Killed Health Care? shows how to win the war. One of the nation's most respected health care analysts, Regina Herzlinger exposes the motives and methods.
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 Good topic.. good content, not written well though September 29, 2008
This is definitely a book that gives you insight around Consumer-driven healthcare. But my only issue is that it doesnt flow well. A lot of times the same point was said over and over again. The Chapters and sub-sections dont really bridge well together... sometimes it just reads like a dramatic keynote speech.
Overall, I recommend the book- the concepts and issues in it are worth knowing about. But dont read it very closely- you'll get bored. Wish it was edited by a professional writer.
 No explanation August 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I haven't seen one review explaining how this is going to help lower health care costs. There's only mention of all kinds of grants, subsidies, means-test, and consumer driven methods. How is an individual person supposed to negotiate or "get" a better rate than what a corporation can negotiate? Doesn't make sense. How is this going to combat overpriced drugs, hospitals, physicians, middle men? The profit motive is still there for the insurers in any case. Seems like a bunch of complicated mumbo jumbo that appeals to "do it yourself" and "yippie for capitalism" jingoists. A book worth reading is A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care by Dr. Arnold Relman. Once we stop fearing the rest of the world and drop our arrogance, that will be the day we can finally find peace.
 Tip of the iceberg, see the image June 22, 2008
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've been thinking about publishing a book on health intelligence, and borrowed this from a colleague.
My contribution will be the image I created while thinking about what the book should look like--the inner square was co-created with another person.
This book can be summarized with three words: *corruption* killed health; *transparency* can heal us; and only we, the *patients* (or victims) can come together to demand resolution.
In the comment, where Amazon does allow URLs, I am pointing to a PriceWaterhouseCoopers report online, which documents 50% of all health costs as waste.
The author ends with very specific recommendations that are excellent as far as they go, but that ignore the 80% of solutions that are outside the existing hospital-pharmaceutical complex. The Japanese have started weighing and measuring their population--a population's health and vitality is the single greatest contributor to national power and prosperity, ergo, we need a "360" approach to national health, and I try to depict that in the image above.
See also:
The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
Fast Food Nation
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
Pandora's Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
The Health of Nations: Infectious Disease, Environmental Change, and Their Effects on National Security and Development
Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition)
Human Scale
Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
innovative approach for radical improvement June 4, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Jack Morgan was a great guy and when he died, a lot of people mourned him. He could have lived another 20 years, but he died because of an inept, malfunctioning, costly healthcare system. Jack thought this system was protecting him, but it killed him.
The hospitals, employers, managed care insurers, the Congress and executive branch, and health policy academics, all conspired, according to Dr. Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School Professor and accomplished author, to kill Jack and hundreds of thousands others, and to make enormous profits in the process.
Her solution? Consumer-driven healthcare, more or less following the Swiss model. It would enable innovators who have great ideas about how to get more value for the money to enter the space and allow providers compete for Jack's business. It would encourage multiple revolutionary innovations in the supply of health care and result in significantly better and less expensive service.
A truly innovative approach for radical improvement that can be accomplished incrementally and tremendously benefit all of us. Read it and think about wonderful possibilities!
Yuval Lirov, Practicing Profitability - Billing Network Effect for Revenue Cycle Control in Healthcare Clinics and Chiropractic Offices: Collections, Audit Risk, SOAP Notes, Scheduling, Care Plans, and Coding
Courageous insight May 26, 2008
Professor Herlinger has once again tackled the single greatest problem in the United States: the antiquated, patronizing, and profit-driven system of health care. Almost everyone who has the authority to do something about our system seems to be too closely tied to industry to make any significant change. This book lays it out simply and directly: we need to return to a consumer-oriented system
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