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Howard Dean’s Prescription For Real Healthcare Reform : How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care For Every American And Make Our Jobs Safer

Title
- Prescription For Real Healthcare Reform : How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care For Every American And Make Our Jobs Safer
Attribution
Howard Dean ; with Igor Volsky, and Faiz Shakir
Publication Details
Book, Chelsea Green Pub, 2009
Availability
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BROWSING (MAIN) RA395.A3 D426 2009 AVAILABLE
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Description
“The success of healthcare reform legislation rises and falls on whether the American public is allowed to opt into a universally available public healthcare program, like Medicare, or not. In this straight-talking guide to rising above today?s healthcare crisis, Dean spells out:What Obama?s healthcare plan is all about How other countries handle healthcare Which special interests are standing in the way of progress and why How healthcare reform will help American businesses prosper Why Americans need choice–between private or public health coverage Millions of Americans lack health insurance; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Notes
- Includes index
Contents
- The trouble with private health insurance
- Healthcare reform is business reform
- Our responsibility
- The starter pack : fundamental elements of healthcare reform - - Obama’s healthcare plan
- Reform without a public health insurance option is not real reform
- How to control costs
- Financing reform : a carbon tax
- Why is this so hard to pass?
- The black hats : special interests and other opposition
- Healthcare reform is not a new idea
- How do other countries do it?
- Eleven myths
- Know the bottom line
- Meet your neighbors : you may be one of them
- What you can do for your neighbors, your country, and yourself
ISBN
- 9781603582285
- 1603582282
LCCN
- 2009023345