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Health care reform United States Health insurance United States Management Humphries, Suzanne Los Angeles County General Hospital. Medical care United States Medical policy United States Physicians United States Biography Public health United States United States. Women physicians United States BiographyYurkiewicz, Ilana
Summary: "An award-winning physician-writer reveals how pervasive cracks in the health care system cost us time, energy, and lives-and how we can fix them. There's an unspoken assumption when you go to see a doctor: the doctor knows your medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But the reality frequently falls short. Medical records vanish when we switch doctors. Critical details of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 YURFaust, Timothy
Summary: Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FAUHartmann, Thom
Summary: "Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 HAREl-Sayed, Abdul
Summary: "A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting. There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as health care--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the health care system at somepoint in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 19...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368.4 EL-SSummary: Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the United States health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on the how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SICSummary: "What the health is a surprising, and at times hilarious, investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about our nation's health and how big business influences it"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHAOfri, Danielle
Summary: "Physician and author Danielle Ofri investigates how medical error could be killing 10% of patients and causing 33% of hospital deaths. These stories ask us to reconsider what happens when the medical system does us harm"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.89 OFRSummary: In his vivid and thought-provoking filmmaking debut, physician Ryan McGarry gives an unprecedented access to America's busiest Emergency Department. Amidst real life-and-death situations, McGarry follows a dedicated team of charismatic young doctors-in-training as they wrestle with both their ideals and the realities of saving lives in a complex and overburdened system.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CODSummary: Do people have a right to health care? While every other industrialized nation has established some system of universal coverage, the United States long resisted such a program. Should universal health coverage be the federal government's responsibility?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Abramson, John
Summary: Combining patient stories with his own experience serving as an expert in national drug litigation, the author, who has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for twenty years, shows how Big Pharma has corrupted American health care and presents apath toward reform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 ABRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health AbramsonReid, T. R.
Summary: Discusses successful health-care systems worldwide, disproving American myths of "socialized medicine" to find possible paths toward reform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.1 REISummary: With the disastrous launch of the HealthCare.gov website in fall 2013, critics of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," were given more fuel for the fire. Will Obamacare succeed, or is it beyond rescue?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Gruber, Jonathan.
Summary: "Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works is a deeply informed, opinionated, immediately accessible explanation of why health care reform is essential, why the legislation Congress passed is our best bet for solving the problem, and why it would be disastrous if we revoked it. Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans are against health care reform. Polls also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2011
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Summary: "New York Times"-bestselling author Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the U.S. can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.10973 REIEmanuel, Ezekiel J.
Summary: From the Publisher: America spends more than any other developed nation on healthcare-$2.1 trillion in 2007 alone. But 47 million Americans remain uninsured, and of those Americans who are insured, many suffer from poor health. In his ground-breaking proposal, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel offers up a plan to comprehensively restructure the delivery and quality of our healthcare. By eliminating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 EMAHumphries, Suzanne
Summary: This autobiography tells the intricate and personal story one doctor's path through medical school and out into academia, specialty medicine, and practice, having to conform to the system's standards. Like many doctors, she was on the way to becoming one of the walking dead. Then, one day she realized that policy was harming her patients, and she took a stand. This resulted in hostility and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHRIES, SUZANNE HUMCohn, Jonathan
Summary: "Jonathan Cohn's The Ten Year War is the definitive account of the battle over Obamacare, based on interviews with sources who were in the room, from the nation's foremost healthcare journalist. The Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," was the most sweeping and consequential piece of legislation of the last half century. It has touched nearly every American in one way or another,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368.38 COHRosenthal, Elisabeth
Summary: "An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 ROSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 362.1097 ROSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health RosenthalFromke, Susan
Summary: Examines the American healthcare system and what can be done to transform it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ESCSnyder, Timothy
Summary: "From the author of On Tyranny comes an urgent diagnosis of an American malady: our heartless system of commercial medicine and our politics of pain. On December 29, 2019, historian Timothy Snyder fell gravely ill. Unable to stand, barely able to think, he waited for hours in an emergency room before being correctly diagnosed and rushed into surgery. Over the next few days, as he clung to life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2020