What would real healthcare reform look like? And how can everyday Americans trump big money and put healthcare back on track? Howard Dean speaks out."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. If Congress issues a bill that gives Americans a public option, then there will be real healthcare reform. If not, we could be back fighting about it for another 20 years before anybody tries again."--Howard DeanAmericans have pondered how to reform healthcare since the days of Harry Truman. But, for most Americans, little has changed—except that healthcare costs have soared, health insurance companies have grown richer, and, today, even those Americans who pay dearly for health insurance frequently find that their policies don’t adequately cover them when they need their coverage most.Something has got to give. In his bold, new book, Howard Dean-the physician and former governor widely credited for reviving the Democratic Party after the 2004 elections-tells Americans what needs to be done to successfully reform healthcare. One key, he writes, is to offer Americans the option to participate in a public healthcare program, much like Medicare. "America has had 'socialized' medicine since 1964," says Dean. "It’s called Medicare; it covers every American over 65, and the majority of them are happy with the program. The rest of America deserves a similar option."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; millions more pay for coverage that doesn't protect them from serious illness; and the status quo leaves Americans at the mercy of corporate interests. In this persuasive argument from a passionate political strategist, Americans learn how to take back the healthcare reins.
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Lots of information. Read with an open mind and you will learn alot
Review Date: July 16, 2010
Reviewer: LS, SF Bay Area
We all know our health care system is less then effective. We all would like it to be better. Most people understand it will be a step by step process with nothing even close to a slam dunk. What this book taught me is more of the root of the issues. Howard's perspective is different from mine and it was nice to get the view from someone who is much more familiar with the providers end of things. While we get a lot of what is wrong currently and what is wrong with the reforms we just got it is nice to hear what it could be if we move in the correct direction far enough. I'm not sure if having more information makes me more frustrated or hopeful but I feel I now have a better handle on the correct direction.
Not as partisan as one would expect from Gov./Dr. Dean
Review Date: May 22, 2010
Reviewer: Amod A. Vaze, Montclair, NJ, USA
Howard Dean draws criticism for his often scathing remarks about conservatives but this book clearly lays out not only why healthcare reform is essential but how it can save money for taxpayers and create an environment for which the insurance industry can ethically compete and still satisfy shareholder needs. He focuses on objective issues, not partisan attacks, which is honestly rare for the good doctor and governor.
Excellent primer on the healthcare reform debate
Review Date: February 22, 2010
Reviewer: Gymsho, Fitchburg, WI
Very readable. This was a good introduction to the issues surrounding the heatlh insurance reform debate.
An unbelievably disappointing, incredibly-biased, extremely liberal-left position paper
Review Date: December 29, 2009
Reviewer: Bmommy, Midwest, USA
Wow, what a disappointment. I put off doing this review for a couple of months because I was so disgusted with this book. I bought this book because I knew that Howard Dean was a doctor, and I thought that his perspective and recommendations would be valuable in the current health care debate. I was expecting an unbiased evaluation of health care reform with a perspective from a doctor on what's best all-around, for us as patients and as Americans. Instead, I got an extremely leftist, super-liberal book that is so obviously NOT an unbiased perspective from a doctor who is "in the trenches," that I had to force myself to even finish it. (which I did, because I wanted to give it a really fair opportunity to change the impression I got from the first few chapters of it).
Since reading this book, I have paid more attention to Howard Dean and his opinions in the news, and I find him extreme and really over-the-edge. I won't go any further into my own political feelings here, but as a reviewer I want you to realize before purchasing that if you are buying this book you should know ahead of time that it is written as a politician and left-winger first, and a doctor second (or third or fourth or whatever).
So if you lean left, you'll love it. If you are in the center or right and looking for an unbiased perspective of a doctor on what's best for America and health care, you will have to find it somewhere else because it is definitely not in Howard Dean's book.
Yup, That right.
Review Date: November 5, 2009
Reviewer: Stephanie Sullivan, Boston, MA USA
Howard Dean should keep shouting it out. I think he sums up the situation clearly and concisely. He presents a rational approach for resolving the health care crisis we now face in the United States.
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