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The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 320
EAN: 9781594032196
Edition: 1
ISBN: 159403219X
Label: Encounter Books
Manufacturer: Encounter Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 250
Publication Date: May 25, 2008
Publisher: Encounter Books
Studio: Encounter Books
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Drawing on personal experience in both the Canadian and U.S. systems, Dr. Gratzer shows how paternalistic government involvement in the health care system has multiplied inefficiencies, discouraged innovation, and punished patients. The Cure offers a detailed and practical approach to putting individuals back in charge. With an introduction by Milton Friedman, The Cure will be required reading for anyone who wants to know what is really wrong with the modern health care system.
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Rating:  - This author is a fool...
... if he thinks that "The Market" will provide affordable, quality health insurance to the millions of cancer survivors, chronically-ill, disabled, and middle-aged people who would lose their employer-based health insurance under his tax increase proposal. I'll gladly admit that reforms are needed, but this market chaos he proposes is not the answer.
Rating: - John B. Sullivan, Jr., MD
The whole premise of this book is a fallacy. Health care is not a market driven phenonmenon. Capitalism as the author refers to is basically those with lots of money get quality health care, those without lots of money get something of much lesser quality. He ignores trauma as a major cost of health care and the fact is trauma victims don't usually make the choice to be traumatized. Also, 50% of trauma victims have alcohol in their system and he makes no effort to bring back prohibition as a cost ... Read More
Rating:  - The perfect antidote to Moore's Sicko propaganda
Let me state now that NO ONE is denying that healthcare in the United States is messed up right now, and is facing some SERIOUS issues. Even the most conservative Republican knows this full well and good. This is not even the issue. The real issue should be: would socializing things make our problems better or worse?
Michael Moore, in Sicko, touts Canada's socialized healthcare system, even calling it "free." (It's not free. The government also does not "pay" for it because the government ... Read More
Rating: - Evidence versus anecdotes
David Gratzer, being a licensed physician in Canada and the US, is a credible critic of proponents of socialized medicine. He does an excellent job of providing data to support his points, and most of his points are that people supporting the concept of a single payer for health care use anecdotes rather than convincing data to show how the US health system is failing. He uses hard endpoint data, such as diagnosis of breast cancer in early stages, cancer survival data, and survival after heart attacks, ... Read More
Rating: - Who's Really 'Sicko'
In Canada, dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week. Humans can wait two to three years.
By DAVID GRATZER
Wall Street Journal Online, June 28, 2007; Page A13
'I haven't seen 'Sicko,'" says Avril Allen about the new Michael Moore documentary, which advocates socialized medicine for the United States. The film, which has been widely viewed on the Internet, and which will officially open in the U.S. and Canada on Friday, has been getting rave reviews. But Ms. Allen, ... Read More
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