Talking about Single Payer

Download or read book Talking about Single Payer written by James F. Burdick and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book describes an optimistic new approach to improving health care delivery to cover every American. Quality will be improved while costs will be lowered, ending the misery and grievances plaguing U.S. health care now. Dr. Burdick proposes an original doctors' board to independently oversee care using a new approach to monitor quality. Joined with a convenient national electronic medical record system, this unique single payer system will free doctors to deal with each patient individually. With these innovations, Dr. Burdick limits market influences and politics in medical decisions so that each patient will receive care guided by their personal medical needs. Thirty interviews with a broad range of authorities provide startling new insights about the adoption of a single payer structure for American health care. These experts complement Dr. Burdick's own clinical and Federal experience as a leader in overseeing the country's organ transplantation program. Through these unique initiatives, Dr. Burdick provides common sense solutions to the political and social challenges currently anchoring American health care to costly and medically inferior practices. Such progress is more possible now than ever before." -- Back cover.