America’s Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone

Review by T. Gudava for America’s Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone
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America’s Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage for Everyone is very rare book. Unlike many others on the subject it is very easy to read, very easy to understand and very hard not to believe in. It goes to the root of the well-known domestic problem and hits the nail right on its head. The authors were writing this “compact” book with their lives. Legendary civil-rights champion Pat Rooney and known inside the beltway “locomotive” – Dan Perrin, dedicated their lives to do something decent and worthy in most not-transparent business in the US – murky health insurance world. They brought in “fair-care” approach,. They unmasked the hospitals “Wonderland” world where consumer’s dollar devaluates and fluctuates in accordance with woodoo practices of the greedy managements.

Because of their sustained support and dedication the long legislative struggle finally gave birth to most appealing and sound healthcare product of the new century – Health Saving Accounts – HSAs. But what is their more important achievement is, that they did their best to unlock insurance best secret kept Pandora box and clear the way for further conservative healthcare innovations which so far is known by the term – Consumer Driven Health Care.

This laconic, as only the truth could be, book is a must-to-read book for healthcare crowd and bankers, politicians and everyone who is not indifferent to challenging future vis-à-vis most painful domestic problem. Unfortunately, like almost everything in our global world, healthcare crisis is also global. It is not exaggeration to say that there is no country on the face of the earth whose healthcare system is not in crisis. (I do not mean the very poor countries – they do not have healthcare at all). Great Britain calculated that if no changes made in couple of decades their GNP will be not enough to cover healthcare cost. Same problem in famous for its free healthcare – Canada, European countries and other’s in developed world.

America remains the only super-power not because we produce more say, sneakers, but because we produce more technologies second to none. America’s Health Care Crisis Solved unleashes innovative creativity not only domestically. Other countries working to solve their problems always were looking at us. And this book is a good beacon in eternal struggle – individualism and freedom vs. collectivism and so called equality. Strangely enough, let’s admit, that this struggle is most pronounced here in the United States. Ironically, Hilary-care phenomenon could not even exist in former Soviet bloc countries. Because they do not want to hear about variations of governmentally managed “free” healthcare systems. They are sick of it, they’ve lived under it. No wonder countries like Poland, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan and others are in a process of adopting consumer driven healthcare approach including medical saving accounts.

For them America is still a beacon, and therefore for me authors of America’s Health Care Crisis Solved are Great Americans, indeed.

TG – former recipient of Soviet “free healthcare”