Publisher's Synopsis
This book is written to bring to light the many wrongs that are occurring in the health care insurance system in the U.S., as compared to health care systems in other countries. The U.S. health care insurance system is the most expensive health care system in the world and yet the most inefficient health care system of all the health care systems of all industrial countries in the world. The fact is that the U.S. health care system is controlled by HMOs and HMOs run the health care system with financial gain as their only motive. The CEOs of the HMOs devise all sorts of business models that enable them and their shareholders to pocket the lion share of the 2.3 trillion dollars allocated yearly to pay for this inefficient and costly health care system. The fact is that HMOs have zero interest in quality patient care. The drug companies must also share some of the blame for the problems afflicting the U.S. health care system because they make drugs that are so expensive that too many people cannot afford to pay for them. It is time for people in the U.S. to demand change and for the government to say, "enough is enough" and devise new legislation to create a brand new health care system that provides health insurance coverage for all American citizens.
