The Book

Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change is written by one of the leading figures in health care today, and offers a simultaneously enthusiastic and rational way to solve this country’s health care crisis. George Halvorson, who has led two of the most successful nonprofit health plans in the country (Health Partners in Minnesota and currently, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan headquartered in California), expounds on a model that solves the unsolvable — by simplifying and streamlining our health care system in a way that works for patients, doctors, nurses, payers, and those who legislate health care policy.

Currently, 1 percent of people incur 35 percent of health care costs. Health care needs to focus on improving the care of those people in very logical and doable ways. Any effort to reform health care that does not understand the overwhelmingly powerful implication of that cost distribution reality is doomed to fail.

Halvorson identifies four core areas in which our system must achieve better results: the need for best practices, a better patient communication process, for both data about care and better outcomes tracking. His model outlines the ethical and logistical reasons for health care reform as well as explains and defends a benefit package and funding services. And finally, he explains why quick action is essential and how using the right tools — the focus on real costs and the use of real data and systems — can make universal coverage affordable, efficient, and administrable.

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About The "Sneak Peek"

Health Care Reform Now!: A Prescription for Change available now In the meantime, George Halvorson has provided a sampling of the issues and ideas surrounding health care reform — topics that are covered in depth in his forthcoming book — free of charge. Click here to download the FREE sneak peek.

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