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It gives high priority to preventive health care and supporting activities that help people remain independent and socially engaged,
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
the physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Defending his medical and unemployment insurance schemes in 1884, Bismarck argued that “the greatest burden for the working class is the uncertainty of life. They can never be certain that they will have a job, or that they will have health and the ability to work. We cannot protect a man from all sickness and misfortune. But it is our obligation,
... See moreT. R. Reid • The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
As documented by Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at Yale University and National Book Award winner for How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter, many Americans have fallen prey to the idea, now avidly marketed by many big players in the health care industry, that medicine can offer a remedy to nature.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Angel Maredia • Healthcare, explained by someone who knows nothing about it
An alternate, and perhaps more feasible, strategy is the implementation of an “all-payer” system. In this scenario, the government essentially sets the schedule of prices that can be charged by health care providers.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
For Americans, the rationing scheme works not through wait times but through the mechanism of price.