Who Died? New Book Assesses The Battle To Control Us Healthcare

Who Killed Health Care?, is a very good question - especially if you need to access "The Healthcare System" anytime soon.According to the jacket cover on "Who Killed Health Care," author and Harvard Professor of Business Administration Regina Herzlinger is one of the most respected health care analysts in the nation; voted one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Health Care" according to Modern Healthcare.Not only respected and powerful, she's a good writer, too. "Who Killed Health Care" reads like a murder-mystery where the usual suspects are out to steal the money and kill everyone in the process! Unfortunately, she's not writing fiction. With 35 pages of footnotes and 10 pages of index, Professor Herzlinger puts forth a very strong argument for who killed healthcare - and the killers' two-trillion-dollar motive!Good news: Regina also puts forth well-documented ideas to wrest control and revive healthcare from the killers still at large.Herzlinger takes no prisoners; her Introduction is an impassioned Call to Arms: "Healthcare is in the midst of a ferocious war; the prize unimaginably huge - $2 Trillion, about the size of the economy of China. Four armies are battling to gain control: Health Insurers, Hospitals, the Government and Doctors. Yet you and I, the people who use the healthcare system and who pay for all of it, are not even combatants. And the Doctors, the group whose interests are most closely aligned with our welfare, are losing the war.""The American People must win this battle," she writes. "A system controlled by the insurance companies or hospitals or government will kill us financially and medically - it will ruin our economy, deny us the healthcare services we need, and undermine the important genomic research that can fundamentally improve the practice of medicine and control its costs. The current system is well on its way to doing all of these terrible things right now."Whew!Generalissimo's introductory rant continues: "There is only one group that can prevent this damage: consumers - you and me - working together with our doctors. I wrote this book to raise a battle cry for American consumers of health. I want you to know why we must win this war. I also delineate the battle plan that will enable us to turn healthcare into a system that is responsive to your needs and my needs - a consumer driven healthcare system."The General backs her opening salvo with a double-time march through the history of healthcare - back to 1933 and the building of the Los Angeles aqueduct in the Mojave Desert by Industrialist Henry Kaiser and entrepreneurial Physician Sidney Garfield - up to the exact hour of healthcare's recent, untimely death.After shooting up every major combatant, 'Reggie lays out her Marshall Plan to revive healthcare in the US.Who Killed Health Care is an outstanding book. I recommend it highly for CEOs, CFOs, HR People, Doctors, Medical Professionals, Hillary...anyone who is a healthcare consumer - or is thinking about becoming one. (That would be you!)To your health! dr seuss book collection