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Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Healthcare Reform

How We Can Achieve Affordable Medical Care for Every American and Make Our Jobs Safer

By Dean, Howard & Volsky, Igor & Shakir, Faiz

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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 aboutHow other countries handle healthcareWhich special interests are standing in the way of progress and whyHow healthcare reform will help American businesses prosperWhy Americans need choice--between private or public health coverageMillions 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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ISBN
978-1-60358-228-5
Publisher
Chelsea Green Publishing


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Reviewed on July 20, 2009

In this well-reasoned but dry book, Dean, former Vermont governor and former Democratic National Committee chair, offers his solutions for health-care reform and financing (carbon and gasoline taxes), but several claims are unsupported or have only a very general reference. Verdict This book is appropriate for anyone looking for a broad overview of the topic, but Tom Daschle's more polished Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis boasts a better historical overview, and Ezekiel Emanuel's Healthcare Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America outdoes both books in terms of comprehensiveness.-Martha Stone, Treadwell Lib., Boston Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. Copyright 2009 Media Source Inc. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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