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My friend Tom Garvey, Founder and President of The Center for Health Care Policy Research and Analysis prepared the video on our home page from the talk he gave at the annual meeting of "The Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved" in September, 2005. Care to see it again? [View ] |
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Selvoy M. Fillerup, MD, MSPH, FACS
Selvoy M. Fillerup is a Board Certified Otolaryngologist and holds a Masters of Science Degree in Public Health from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and completed residency training in Preventive Medicine. His area of particular interest is universal healthcare policy. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery. Dr. Fillerup is a practicing otolaryngologist in Phoenix, Arizona. He previously held positions as Clinical Instructor in the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, and in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at UCD-HSC where he taught International Health. Dr. Fillerup serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Center for Health Care Policy Research and Analysis.
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I did not intend to write the book Chronic Crisis. I only needed a lecture with about ten slides on successful foreign healthcare systems. (I was teaching a masters level course in international health at the time.) But the research on foreign healthcare systems swallowed me whole. I soon saw the American healthcare crisis in an entirely different light. I had no choice; I began writing.
When I began, I could not find, indeed I did not need, an umbrella term for an entire class of healthcare systems: Multi-payor Universal Enrollment Healthcare Systems. But these systems function all around the globe. They share features with the so called "Bismark system." They are dynamic, market oriented, and remarkably efficient. They have overcome a common set of problems using a common set of very successful solutions. The average per capita cost of medical care in these systems is less than half the cost in the United States. Yet they provide universal healthcare, excellent outcomes (as good as or better than the United States), contain costs, and have no waiting times.
In my mind, the second book, Handbook for Healthcare Reform, is a better book. It naturally builds on the background of the first book and presents the logical conclusions to be drawn from it, including a model for the application of the shared "essential policies" described in Chronic Crisis.
I now lecture on the subject of U.S. healthcare reform, foreign healthcare systems, and the essential nature of the policy instruments that make them successful. The United States is now beginning to recognize the same principles and stands to save billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives.
Contact me. I lecture routinely on subjects related to healthcare policy. *** Please visit my blog. Optimistic, but intermittent, musings on the health reform debate. http://reformhealthcare.wordpress.com/ |
