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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Politics, Policy & Reform > Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S. Health Care System Oxymorons: The Myth of a U.S.
Health Care System Hardcover, 272 pages
In this impassioned and often vitriolic book - a follow-up to the author's bestselling Bleeding Edge: The Business of Health Care in the New Century - U.S. health care industry expert J.D. Kleinke offers an unflinching look at our broken health care system. Throughout the book, Kleinke - who was once a vocal advocate of the managed health care system - explains what went wrong and attempts to answer such perplexing questions as:
You may read an excerpt of this book here. "J.D. Kleinke takes us on a fearless, often harrowing journey to the beating heart of the U.S. health care system, dispelling much of the conventional wisdom about what is wrong with that system, and focusing our attention on what will and will not work to fix it. Oxymorons is a comprehensive, uncompromising, and durable milestone in the annals of health policy, medical, and business literature." — John Iglehart, national correspondent, New England Journal of Medicine and founding editor, Health Affairs Health care in the US is a $1.4 trillion per year fiasco. The imposition of the nation's employers, major insurance companies, investment bankers, insurance brokers, and countless other corporate middlemen into the financing and delivery of medicine aggravates rather than resolves the fundamental structural problems that cripple the US health care system and doom the market's ability to fix it. Managed care is the clearest proof of the essential market failures that characterize medical care in the US. This book attempts to answer questions such as: - who's in charge of America's health care system? - how does manage care work and not work? - how have hospitals become so complex? - what are the prospects for reform? - does the internet change anything? "The book is interesting, easy to read, and flows smoothly." Journal for Healthcare Quality J.D. Kleinke is a medical economist, health information technology executive, and the founder and President of HSN, a medical software development company headquartered in Colorado. During the 1990s, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development for HCIA Inc., helping grow the company from a start-up hospital data analysis firm into a pioneering, publicly-traded provider of health care information systems and products. Before joining HCIA, Kleinke was Director of Corporate Programs at Sheppard Pratt Health System, where he developed and managed the nation's first provider-based managed mental health care system. Kleinke's work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, JAMA, Barron's, Health Affairs, the British Medical Journal, Modern Healthcare and numerous other publications. If you are interested in policy or books about health care reform, please see our up-to-date collection here: Politics, Policy & Reform. (information directly from the publisher) You may also be interested in / The Directory of Healthcare Recruiters / Jump to a List / Health Administration & Leadership / Physician Executive, Medical Staff & Practice Management / Finance, Accounting, Economics, Billing & Reimbursement / Coding for Hospital, Physician & Clinical Services / Law, Malpractice, Ethics, Accreditation & Compliance / Quality Improvement, Outcomes & Customer Service / Risk Management, Security, Error Reduction & Patient Safety / Information Systems, Technology & Medical Records / Clinical Management & Executive Nursing / Behavioral Health, Social Work & Psychiatry Management / Human Resources, Management & Supervision / Directories, Data, Trends & Benchmarks / Software & CD-ROMs / Gift Ideas & Recommended Gifts / Journals, Magazines & Newsletters / Search for Books / Books Index / Go Back to Pages / Home Page / Toolbox for Health Administrators / Bookstore |
