In this book, Wayne Anthony, along with input from many healthcare stakeholders, offers a surprisingly uncomplicated, yet workable plan that would simplify the system while offering coverage for people at all income levels, in every industry, and in both urban and rural areas across the nation. His plan, which calls for the creation of State Healthcare Cooperatives, offers a number of attractive features, including: making it possible for everyone to participate in a collective healthcare trust; giving participants more choices on healthcare providers and services; dramatically improving how healthcare is delivered; reimbursing and rewarding preventive healthcare and healthy lifestyles; putting purchasers, participants, and providers of healthcare back in charge of healthcare and its delivery system. The Healthcare Solution lays out just how to implement such a plan, building on a foundation already put in place by past legislation and regulations. As Mr. Anthony illustrates, accessible, affordable, quality health care for all is an achievable goal. To do that, we must know how it can be accomplished. The blueprint lies within the pages of this book.

In this second edition, analyst and author Kathleen O’Connor nails the flaws of the health care industry and the horrendous changes facing doctors, hospitals, and everyone who wants affordable, high-quality health care. She lays out the problems we face and why they are there, and then she paves a path to change. O’Connor uses direct language to strip a complex and greedy industry of its mystery and offers a no-nonsense template for community action.

Doctor. In most people, the very word evokes a spectrum of reverent adjectives … Intelligent, powerful, all-knowing, infallible, demi-god. Or sometimes … JERK. The last description comes courtesy of Dr. Hollenbeck who ought to know. She has spent her entire adult life as a physician and has crossed swords with many a doctor who should have chosen a different line of work. Dr. Hollenbeck shares her insider’s view into the art and practice of medicine, and opens a window into its soul. This entertaining look at real-world medical care comes from woman who’s been a family physician for the past three decades, knows her way around the medical profession, and speaks up about its unflattering angles. With a wry sense of humor and a no-holds-barred writing style, Dr. Hollenbeck pops the balloon of sanctity that insulates those at the top of the medicine machine, exposing its glitches and recommending a much-needed overhaul to make it hum.