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(More customer reviews)This is a great introductory book to the subject of universal health care (UHC) in general and the struggle for UHC in the USA. It will also serve well as a basic references on the subject for someone already well-informed but wishing specific numerous references. It is well-written and highly accessible to almost any interested party (not at all limited to experts or academics).
The one caveat is that Dr. Geyman's chapter on the "Right to Health Care" is misinformed, shallow and (therefore) dismissive of the topic. The book would have been much better had he left that chapter out. Having added it and then failing to do any serious study or responsible consideration of human rights law generally, social-economic rights law, or of similar civil rights laws, he did the entire book (otherwise excellent) a terrible disservice in that one chapter.
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In this stunning mixture of real life stories and cold-eyed analysis, Geyman brings you close up to the perils faced by every American. With nearly all Americans facing a lack of health insurance at some point, this is a book for you."Dr. John Geyman's Falling Through the Safety Net provides a brilliant road map to this nation's patchwork of medical coverage for the uninsured. As a practitioner, teacher, and medical leader, Geyman has learned his way around the safety net first hand. Powerful reading for all."-Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, author, Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care."Once again, the legendary master of family medicine -addresses with clinical compassion the widespread concerns about "unsurance" and uncovered medical costs."-Donald Light, Professor of comparative health care -systems, Princeton UniversityTo those who would take the Alfred E. Newman stance toward health insurance (What me worry, I'm healthy!), Geyman delivers some sobering statistics:Eighty percent of the uninsured live in working families;Sixty-seven million Americans are uninsured for at least one month in a twenty-eight month period;One in five workers cannot afford insurance when offered by employers;Even in families with two full-time wage earners, ten percent are uninsured.Those who lack insurance face poor health care and increased risk of bad outcomes. The answer, argues Dr. Geyman, is one the majority of Americans already want: single payer health insurance. This is the book for those who no longer want this problem to be as American as apple pie. John Geyman, M.D., is professor emeritus of Family -Medicine at the University of Washington, and editor of the Journal of the American Board of Family Practice.
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