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  Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Healthcare System without Destroying It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 596min

  The U.S. health care system is in critical condition--but this should come as a surprise to no one. Yet until now the solutions proposed have been unworkable, pie-in-the-sky plans that have had little chance of becoming law and even less of succeeding. In Code Red, David Dranove, one of the nation's leading experts on the economics of healthcare, proposes a set of feasible solutions that address access, efficiency, and quality. Dranove offers pragmatic remedies, some of them controversial, all of them crucially needed to restore the system to vitality. He pays special attention to the plight of the uninsured, and proposes a new direction that promises to make premier healthcare for all Americans a national reality. Setting his story against the backdrop of healthcare in the United States from the early 20th century to the present day, he reveals why a century of private and public sector efforts to reform the ailing system have largely failed. He draws on insights from economics to diagnose the root causes of rising costs and diminishing access to quality care, such as inadequate information, perverse incentives, and malfunctioning insurance markets. Dranove describes the ongoing efforts to revive the system--including the rise of consumerism, the quality movement, and initiatives to expand access - and argues that these efforts are doomed to fail without more fundamental, systemic, market-based reforms. Code Red lays the foundation for a thriving health care system and is indispensable for anyone trying to make sense of the thorny issues of health care reform. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jonathan Walker. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/001391/bk_adbl_001391_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  ObamaCare for Beginners: Your Survival Guide Book to Beating ObamaCare , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 96min

  What is Obamacare? And more important, what does Obamacare mean for you? Fact: Obamacare will affect every single American. Obamacare for Beginners: Your Survival Guide Book to Beating Obamacare aims to help you better understand the essentials of Obamacare and what it means for you.A concise guidebook providing an introduction to Obamacare in a quick and easy-to-understand format, Obamacare for Beginners covers all the basics: What Obamacare means for you: uninsured individual, middle-class adult, senior citizen (65+), female adult, small-business owner, large-business owner, person with a mental illness, and more Arguments for and against Obamacare, and a brief history of the health care debate in the United States An Obamacare Timeline that provides a year-by-year breakdown of how the law will be implemented from today until 2020 Key terms and definitions covering concepts such as a "pre-existing condition" and "single payer" Recommended reading for further research into the complex law, the controversies, and its historyRevealing the essentials of Obamacare, from its history to its implementation, Obamacare for Beginners is an accessible introduction to the key terms, timeline, and regulations of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.Obamacare is a complex law, and few have actually read the 2,700 pages in its entirety--including some lawmakers who voted for or against it--let alone understand its full ramifications.Although Obamacare is complex, understanding its implications for your health shouldn't be. Obamacare for Beginners: Your Survival Guide Book to Beating Obamacare simplifies the law and helps you take the first steps toward navigating your individual health plan. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kevin Pierce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/007874/bk_acx0_007874_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right for Half the Cost , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 597min

  There is a real answer for healthcare, and Medicare — and it’s not what you’re hearing. Veteran industry insider Joe Flower goes public with the biggest secret in health care: The real solution to health care is already starting to happen — if you know where to look. The reform act is just a small part of the picture. In 1980, healthcare took no more of a bite out of the U.S. economy than it did in other developed countries. By 2000, healthcare cost twice as much in the U.S. as in most other developed countries. We can change that. It’s not a law of gravity. Flower shows: How to make the federal deficit disappear. Why half of all health-care costs are spent on 5 percent of the people Why cost-cutting doesn’t cut costs. Why it’s not about who pays – it’s about what you pay for. How we can solve our health-care crisis without rationing. Nine things doctors could stop doing today — that we’d never miss — that would save enough to cover all uninsured Americans. Healthcare Beyond Reform: Doing It Right For Half The Cost shows you how the system works. It explains how we got here, why we pay so much more than anyone else, and why we don’t get what we pay for.You’ll learn the five things healthcare can do to turn this around. You will see what some employers are already doing to make that happen, and what patients, families, doctors, and anyone else who cares about healthcare can do to help make it happen.There are only five and we need all five. All of them can be done right now, with the current healthcare system as it is. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Joe Flower. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/open/000064/bk_open_000064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Landmark: The Inside Story of America’s New Health-Care Law and What It Means for Us All , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 626min

  The Washington Post’s must-read guide to health-care reform traces how President Obama and the Democrats achieved this historic overhaul, explains the legislation itself, and shows how it will impact individual Americans.After a year-long political war, in March 2010 President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress achieved a victory that has eluded lawmakers for 75 years: an overhaul of America’s health-care system. In this indispensible book, the staff of the Washington Post tells the story of health-care reform and explains what it means for the American people.In the book’s first section, the Washington Post’s reporter embedded in the White House provides a behind-the-scenes narrative of how Obama and the Democrats pushed through health-care reform in the face of nearly unanimous Republican opposition. This section traces the tortured evolution of the legislation, showing how the Senate killed the public option, how the January 2010 victory of Republican senator Scott Brown left the Democrats scrambling, and how Democratic leaders ultimately negotiated among entrenched political factions—including disillusioned Democrats—to reach a compromise.What does this final package include? The book’s second section provides an accessible summary of the legislation that Obama signed into law in March 2010. In the third section, Washington Post writers answer our most pressing questions about the health-care legislation’s immediate impact. Most importantly, how will the new law affect individuals—small-business owners, uninsured Americans with pre-existing conditions, and twentysomethings on their parents’ policies? This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how this legislation came into being and what the new health-care program means.Contributors include: National Editor Kevin Merida, Associate Editor Steven Luxenberg, and staff writers Ceci Connolly, and Alec MacGillis. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Pam Ward. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003768/bk_blak_003768_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  County: Life, Death, and Politics at Chicago’s Public Hospital , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 426min

  The amazing tale of County is the story of one of America's oldest and most unusual urban hospitals. From it's inception as a "Poor House" dispensing free medical care to indigents, Chicago's Cook County Hospital has been both a renowned teaching hospital and the healthcare provider of last resort for the city's uninsured. County covers more than thirty years of its history, beginning in the late 1970s when the author began his internship, to the "Final Rounds" when the enormous iconic Victorian hospital building was replaced and hundreds of former trainees gathered to bid it an emotional farewell. Ansell writes of the hundreds of doctors who went through the rigorous training process with him, sharing his vision of saving the world and of resurrecting a hospital on the verge of closing. County is about people, from Ansell’s mentors, including the legendary Quentin Young, to the multitude of patients whom he and County’s medical staff labored to diagnose and heal. It is a story about politics, from contentious union strikes to battles against “patient dumping”, and public health, depicting the AIDS crisis and the opening of County’s HIV/AIDS clinic, the first in the city. Finally, it is about a young man’s medical education in urban America, a coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of race, segregation and poverty. David A. Ansell, MD., a Chicago-based physician and health activist, has been an internal-medicine physician since training at Cook County Hospital in the late 1970s, where he spent seventeen years. Now chief medical officer at Rush University Medical Center, he sees patients, teaches, volunteers as a doctor at a Chicago free clinic, and participates in medical missions to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bronson Pinchot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/004599/bk_blak_004599_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  One Nation Uninsured

  One Nation Uninsured - Why the U. S. Has No National Health Insurance: ab 13.49 €

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  One Nation Uninsured

  One Nation Uninsured - Why the U. S. Has No National Health Insurance: ab 13.49 €

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  The Care of the Uninsured in America

  The Care of the Uninsured in America: ab 92.99 €

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  Uninsured in Chicago

  Uninsured in Chicago - How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind: ab 26.49 €

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  Love Is

  Now, you have to understand one thing about Dean Irons: he is not afraid to write and sing about personal feelings. His first CD, called 'Second Chance,' is a message about mistakes and forgiveness and learning how to be a better person. His new CD speaks to the power of love and how it really is the answer to the problems of the world. There is also a love song to his wife called 'For Your Love,' and a song about being in a band called 'The Gig.' The song 'Family' rounds out the CD. It was written for his family to let them know how deeply he loves them and how important they are to his life. Dean started playing the drums at age 10. It started with a snare and a cymbal, then a family friend gave him a full drum set and he was off and running. With a love of rock and roll, he also played jazz with much older musicians, once playing in front of 500 people at age 10. He then picked up the guitar at age 16, but it took a long time to gain real confidence with this instrument, for he was always in the shadow of other players. His voice lacked confidence as well. At the same time, he was working on being a singer and guitar player, he was pounding out dynamic rhythms in various garage bands. His first was called 'Firewater,' which stayed together from 1973-74. Here and there, he was able to sing a few songs, and he finally became comfortable singing behind the drums in a great local seacoast band called McBeth, considered one of the best in the area with a strong fan base. After three years with McBeth, he kept playing drums in an assortment of bands from country to hard rock. During this period, his songwriting and guitar playing were getting much better, and band members would start asking him to play guitar instead of drums. In the mid 80s, he linked up with another singer-songwriter named Frank Smith, and Dean played drums in a band with him called The Sneakers. Things were running on all cylinders, he was singing many songs and writing and co-writing original material. This was a fun period of music for him, and he learned a great deal about songwriting from Frank. Frank died of lung cancer in 1993. Dean learned how to play bass in a country band for a year and a half, all the while working on guitar riffs. All his hard work paid off, and voila! He became a good guitar player. He then formed his own band called the Dean Irons Band, to promote his new CD, 'Second Chance,' playing all around the NH/Maine Seacoast area. He received great feedback on it. So that led him to write, perform, record and produce his latest work, called Love Is. His wife of 27 years and his son play and sing on several tracks. He also gets some wonderful piano work on 'It's All About the People' from Sherry Stromski and bass and keyboard from Jim McDougall, both highly regarded professional musicians. Dean draws from influences such as Jackson Browne, Steve Miller, Eric Clapton, and Bonnie Raitt. Two of the songs on Love Is--'Only a Memory' and 'Funky Frank'--were written around long-ago guitar work recorded by Frank. Dean was so moved by his playng that he formed full songs around Frank's music. Listen to the rhythm guitar on both songs, and you'll hear Frank. (As a tribute to Frank, Dean donates 10% of all proceeds to uninsured cancer patients at York Hospital in York, ME.) Dean pulls together all his talent from singing, songwriting, bass, drums, keyboards and harmonies to complete his latest CD. He hopes you'll enjoy the music.

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