In his book, “Catastrophic Care How American Health care Killed My Father- And How We can Fix it,” David Goldberg provides an investigative approach to our current healthcare system and how and why we need to change our thinking in both delivery of care and how we pay for it.
In 2007, David Goldberg’s father entered the hospital as a result of pneumonia. Within hours of his admission, he developed a hospital acquired infection that landed him in the intensive care unit with a five week stay that ended in his death and thousands of dollars in care that Medicare paid for. Mr. Goldberg’s anger drove him to examine how our heath care system with our world class technology and hospital professionals could have been so careless. What he found was a system that causes over two hundred thousand avoidable deaths in medical errors annually and the financial impact it is to our government and insurance industry.
He challenges both political parties and our health care providers to be transparent to health care consumers in what needs to happen to provide quality health care at a reasonable cost. In addressing health care and the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, he argues this new legislation is really not health care but an extension of health insurance which will drive up the costs of health care even more overshadowing the reason for the legislation which is to provide health care to all Americans.
For those interested in a detailed analysis of delivery of health care and how to fund it, this book is an excellent read. As consumers, we need to know what care is, how it is provided, what it actually costs us and to take charge of our own health. As we are purchasers of our own health care, Mr. Goldberg challenges us all to become educated health care consumers and take a more active role in making health care decisions. Ask your self, if I had to pay for my health care, wouldn’t I be more involved?
Click on this link to place a hold on this book in our Evergreen Catalog today!
In 2007, David Goldberg’s father entered the hospital as a result of pneumonia. Within hours of his admission, he developed a hospital acquired infection that landed him in the intensive care unit with a five week stay that ended in his death and thousands of dollars in care that Medicare paid for. Mr. Goldberg’s anger drove him to examine how our heath care system with our world class technology and hospital professionals could have been so careless. What he found was a system that causes over two hundred thousand avoidable deaths in medical errors annually and the financial impact it is to our government and insurance industry.
He challenges both political parties and our health care providers to be transparent to health care consumers in what needs to happen to provide quality health care at a reasonable cost. In addressing health care and the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, he argues this new legislation is really not health care but an extension of health insurance which will drive up the costs of health care even more overshadowing the reason for the legislation which is to provide health care to all Americans.
For those interested in a detailed analysis of delivery of health care and how to fund it, this book is an excellent read. As consumers, we need to know what care is, how it is provided, what it actually costs us and to take charge of our own health. As we are purchasers of our own health care, Mr. Goldberg challenges us all to become educated health care consumers and take a more active role in making health care decisions. Ask your self, if I had to pay for my health care, wouldn’t I be more involved?
Click on this link to place a hold on this book in our Evergreen Catalog today!
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