Exposing the Twenty Medical Myths
Why Everything You Know about Health Care Is Wrong and How to Make It Right
Seiten
2019
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-3118-3 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-3118-3 (ISBN)
This book provides an honest, unbiased view of the state of health care policy in America. By fact checking 20 enduring health care myths, Garson and Holeywell give citizens the tools they need to evaluate the major policy issues confronting our health care system.
Despite intense political focus and debate for the past 10 years, Americans remain deeply worried about the availability and affordability of health care for themselves and their families. In clear and accessible prose, journalist Ryan Holeywell and medical doctor and health policy expert Arthur Garson provide Americans with the tools we need to have an honest, unbiased view of the state of health care policy in America. By fact checking 20 enduring health care myths they move the debate beyond Obamacare v. repeal and replace and give citizens the tools they need to evaluate the major policy issues confronting our health care system.
Despite intense political focus and debate for the past 10 years, Americans remain deeply worried about the availability and affordability of health care for themselves and their families. In clear and accessible prose, journalist Ryan Holeywell and medical doctor and health policy expert Arthur Garson provide Americans with the tools we need to have an honest, unbiased view of the state of health care policy in America. By fact checking 20 enduring health care myths they move the debate beyond Obamacare v. repeal and replace and give citizens the tools they need to evaluate the major policy issues confronting our health care system.
Arthur “Tim” Garson enjoyed a successful career as a pediatric cardiologist before becoming a health policy advocate and leader. He is currently Director of the Health Policy Institute, an organization with 61 members including 26 hospitals and 4 medical schools. He has been President of the American College of Cardiology, Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and is an elected member of the National Academy of Science’s National Academy of Medicine. He is the author of Health Care Half Truths: Too Many Myths, Not Enough Reality (R&L, 2007). Ryan Holeywell covers state and national politics for Governing magazine.
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.11.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 558 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5381-3118-8 / 1538131188 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-3118-3 / 9781538131183 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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