Health Care America (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798896752684)

America's health-care crisis is not of recent origin. Forty years ago, doctors Goodman and Musgrave identified significant problems with America's health care only because health care is the most regulated and politicized sector of our economy. It takes considerable understanding of economics, medical care, politics, ethics, and emotions for anyone to obtain a unified view of America's health care. Health care has gone through many revisions, but each has made it more complicated and expensive. They found that medical care was actually relatively inexpensive, but insurance had made it more costly.

The yearly physical exams have not yielded any improvement in health-care outcomes. With the algorithm we present, the routine maintenance of our health care can be self-directed and insurance-free until you require hospital care. It involves physicians only when questions occur not explained in the protocol. This represents a significant cost reduction in your own health-care monitoring costs and subsequent care. Laboratory medical directors can now authorize the few screening tests that are appropriate as outlined in the proposal for diseases without any symptoms without returning to your personal physician for another requisition.

So patients begin to save health-care costs by paying for monitoring their own health with the algorithms outlined in this book, a major innovation in streamlining US health care.