*** The vocabulary and issues of the healthcare debate
are not beyond your reach.
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An estimated 46.6 million Americans have no healthcare coverage. Annually about 18,000 Americans die prematurely because they lack healthcare access.
The issue of a single-payor universal healthcare system, similar to systems in Canada and the UK, has been heavily debated, but no universal healthcare policy has evolved in the United States.
Few Americans realize that most European countries do not, however, have single-payor systems. Most have Multi-payor Universal Enrollment Healthcare Systems in which government and private health insurance companies share a symbiotic relationship. The book Chronic Crisis reviews several major foreign healthcare systems and opens the door to discussion of a Multi-payor Universal Healthcare policy in the U.S.
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The language of the healthcare debate leaves many Americans out of the discussion - until now.
Chronic Crisis is straightforward, accessible, and directly to the point about the real issues affecting the U.S. healthcare market.
The reader will find easy explanations of industry specific terms, objective reviews of several nations' successful healthcare delivery systems, and a healthy gaze at the hole into which the U.S. health insurance industry is presently sliding.
Here is a keep-it-simple perspective regarding healthcare reform, with a long list of the secondary economic and social benefits that accompany any truly sustainable universal healthcare system. All is presented in a very readable, all-the-cards-on-the-table style. Good reading.
