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Article: Expensive healthcare that doesn't work.(BookCorners)(Book Review)
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- October 1, 2004
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Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System
by Robert H. LeBow, MD
Published by Alan C. Hood & Co., Inc., P.O. Box 775, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 17201 USA
2003, ISBN 0-911469-22-2 Hardcover 274 pages; (send $28.50 per copy to the publisher)
US healthcare rates a coveted first place in global surveys. True or False? Depends upon what's being surveyed. If the issue is cost--the answer is true. In the US healthcare is evolving into a privilege to be purchased by those who can afford it. Increasing numbers cannot afford it. We are the only "developed" country in the world where people go bankrupt because of ...