New Book: "single-payer system would be required to cut administrative costs"
Mike Hersh
To my friends,
As many of you know, I have recently completed a book on health care
reform, Shock Therapy for the American Health Care System. It is being
released by Praeger Publishers on Friday, July 31st. My book presents
the only fiscally responsible program for reform focusing on universal
care that would require no new government spending, no additional taxes,
and no increase in the budget deficit. My plan does this by reducing
administrative costs and unnecessary care, two items that account for
about $1 trillion of our $2.5 trillion health care spending.
In this program, a single-payer system would be required to cut
administrative costs and physicians would be placed on salary to
eliminate incentives for unnecessary care. Naturally, organized medicine
and the insurance companies will be vehemently opposed, and will attack
it aggressively if it gets any traction; however, under my plan, average
income for many physicians, particularly those in primary care, could
actually rise with the savings that would be generated.
The system would be run by a board composed of physicians, economists
and businessmen, like the Federal Reserve, independent of the government
and immune to political interference. Regional health entities would be
utilized to deliver care, but physician-patient relationships would be
maintained. Rather than being profit oriented, this would result in
patient centric care. The health care system would be simplified and
made much more efficient. Shock Therapy also details a number of other
important components necessary for reform, including restructuring of
the malpractice process.
I am asking for your support and for you to buy the book, so you can
learn how fiscally responsible reform is possible. I would also
appreciate your sending this message on to your friends and ask them to
relay it on to their friends. In this way, through a viral Internet
campaign, the message can be spread that Americans are fed up with their
representatives in Washington giving in to the special interests and
giving our money away in return for campaign contributions and other
perks. Perhaps a grassroots groundswell can be created to pressure the
politicians into doing the right thing in terms of health care reform.
Please buy Shock Therapy online at www.BarnesandNoble.com
<http://www.barnesandnoble.com/> or www.Amazon.com
<http://www.amazon.com/> and spread the word. Contact your Senators and
Representatives and tell them you want fiscally responsible health care
reform. Then we’ll see what happens.
Thanks
Bob Levine
Website will be available next week: www.RobertALevineMD.com
<http://www.RobertALevineMD.com>
email: RobertA...@aol.com