ISBN-13: 9781492814368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 176 str.
The American health care system is broken and nothing Congress has done, is doing, plans to do or has even debated, will fix it. The fervent arguments from both sides of the isle on Capitol Hill are fallacious; neither addresses the crux of the matter. The recently passed Affordable Health Care Act will not fix it. For it is not a matter of who should have access to health care, or even how to pay for it; the issue is the health care system itself, the excessive and unwarranted services we, as consumers, are purchasing. Barring the relatively few surgical and special procedures of benefit, the American health care system is largely all about making money. Misallocation and overutilization are not merely a problem within the industry they are the driving force that keeps it afloat. With this virtually unregulated practice, the industry writes its own ticket at the nation's expense.