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Unraveling U. S. Health Care
A Personal Guide
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2013
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Unraveling U.S. Health Care is a guidebook to the health care system that provides a timely and thorough explanation of U.S. health care, written in readable laymen’s terms. Roberta Winter educates and informs general readers about useful information that will empower their health care decision making. She makes sense of important health care issues, which are often filtered with political and financial stakeholder bias, confusing the health care consumer. Useful tips, explanatory charts, and statewide scorecards are included throughout to assist readers in choosing the best care they can receive.
More than ever, patients must act as consumers of health care, balancing informed decisions with available resources. Keeping this in mind, Winter also explores other options available to patients, including seeking health care outside the United States, and provides a roadmap for medical tourists to the U.S. In addition, she includes Medicare enrollment tips, and a summary of the 2010 health care reforms and implementation guidelines. Bringing all this data together, this book will serve as a resource and guide for anyone who seeks to receive better care for both everyday issues and major health concerns alike.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-2297-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-2298-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
290
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Prologue: Why You Need to Read This Book No access
Chapter 1. The Truth about U.S. Health Care No access
Chapter 2. Why U.S. Health Care Is So Expensive No access
Chapter 3. Evidence-Based Planning: What It Means and Why You Should Care No access
Chapter 4. Quality and Cost: How the United States Compares with Other Countries No access
Chapter 5. Quality Indicators: Best Hospitals for Patient Safety No access
Chapter 6. Critical Care: U.S. Hospitals with Level-1 Trauma Centers No access
Chapter 7. Patient Safety: Who Reports Hospital Errors No access
Chapter 8. Surgical Tips: When You Have to Go Under the Knife No access
Chapter 9. How to Get Medical Treatment in the United States Without Health Insurance No access
Chapter 10. Medical Tourism: Getting Health Care Outside the United States No access
Chapter 11. Health Care for Visitors to the United States No access
Chapter 12. Naturopathic and Alternative Health Care in America: Who Regulates It No access
Chapter 13. Health Care Reforms: A Consumer Perspective No access
Chapter 14. When It’s Terminal: How to Die Well No access
Chapter 15. What You Need to Know Before Your Medicare Election No access
Chapter 16. Health Insurance 101 No access
Chapter 17. Women’s Health Care: The Best and the Worst in the United States No access
Chapter 18. Men’s Health Care: The Best and the Worst in the United States No access
Chapter 19. Children’s Health Care: The Best and the Worst in the United States No access
Chapter 20. Strategies for Reducing the Cost of Health Care in the United States No access
Epilogue No access Pages 227 - 228
Acknowledgments No access Pages 229 - 230
Appendix: For the Informed Health Care Purchaser No access Pages 231 - 256
