"Ask Me About HSAs!"

"Let Me Choose My Hospital!"

"Let Me Choose My Insurance!"

"Let Me Choose My Treatment!"

"I Like My HSA!"

"It's My Health!"

"It's My Money!"

"Let Me Choose My Doctor!"

Lives at Risk
John Goodman, Gerald Musgrave and Devon Herrick
Rowman & Littlefield

This is a definitive analysis of single-payer health care systems around the world showing how they have not delivered on the promise to provide quality health care to all and typically over provide to the healthy and under provide to the sick and poor.

In comparison to health care in the United States, evidence presented in Lives at Risk shows that patients in single-payer countries such as Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand routinely face a reduction in the quality of health care:

• Lower quality of care, especially for the sick.
• Lack of access to the best doctors and medicines.
• Lack of access to new medical technology.
• Unreasonable waiting periods.

The authors note that over the past decade almost every developed country with a national health care system has introduced market-oriented reforms, often looking to the U.S. system for guidance.

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Consumer-Driven Health Care
Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers
Regina Herzlinger
Jossey-Bass Publishers

Professor Herzlinger documents how the consumer-driven health care movement is being implemented and its impact on insurers, providers, new intermediaries, and governments. With additional contributions by health care's leading strategists, innovators, regulators and scholars, Consumer-Driven Health Care presents a compelling vision of a health care system built to satisfy the people it serves.

This comprehensive resource includes the most important thinking on the topic and compelling case studies of consumer-driven health care (CDHC) in action, here and abroad, including new consumer-driven intermediaries for information and support; types of insurance plans; focused factories for delivering hedlth care; personalized drugs and devices; and government roles.

To buy the book, go to: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/
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Your Doctor Is Not In
Healthy Skepticism About National Healthcare
Jane M. Orient, M.D.
Crown Publishing, Inc.

In this provocative book, Dr. Jane Orient, who has been called "a brilliant, committed physician, a leader in medicine," argues for solutions to the crisis in medicine that are bold, thoughtful, and fundamentally opposed to those being widely touted today-including "managed care" systems. From her perspective, there is already too much government involvement in medicine, too much regulation, too much insurance-which is actually prepayment in disguise. These are the root causes of the accelerating rise in fees and costs, the neglect of patients, and stagnation in the science of medicine itself. This book is certain to add fresh energy to the debate over the quality and availability of medical care in America.

To buy the book and to see other books by Jane Orient, go to: http://www.janeorient.com/

How to Make Sense of Health Insurance in America
Timothy Pitcher
Trafford Publishers

Over the past 50-some years employer sponsored health insurance has helped shape and dictate how health care is accessed and financed. That may have worked okay when there was a single source of household income and individuals stayed with one employer throughout their working lifetime. Unfortunately, in today's mobile workplace the employer sponsored system is antiquated and breeds waste. This book outlines why the current system needs to be replaced with Consumer Choice. One of the changing paradigm shifts in group health insurance is a return to insurance products away from pre-paid health care or HMOs. HMOs dominated the market throughout most of the 90's and the early part of this century. A movement called Consumer Driven Health Care has taken center stage. This movement is a return to insurance concepts with regard to health insurance policies.

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The HSA Strategy
Robert Hopper, PhD
A.D. Banker, Inc.

Dr. Hopper believes that every American should have a high deductible health plan (HDHP) coupled with a health savings account (HSA). He calls this "The HSA Strategy."

He says, "It is easy to demonstrate that this strategy is in the best long-term health and financial interest of nearly everyone. The potential to plan and save for a "lifetime of benefits" dwarfs the benefits of traditional health plans that only provide benefits during the given policy year. "

"The HSA Strategy" is the most cost-effective way to insure health; it will evolve into the free enterprise approach to national health care in America.

Because this book is so vital to America's health care future, it is used as the text in continuing education courses for insurance agents. The responsibility of educating America about the features and benefits of The HSA Strategy will fall upon the shoulders of these professionals.

But the book is also for people who want to learn more about this smarter way of insuring health, and who want to have the plan of the future NOW. Although it is written for the professional, the writing is accessible to individuals and employees across America.

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Miracle Cure:
How To Solve America's Health-Care Crisis And Why Canada Isn't The Answer
Sally C. Pipes
Pacific Research Institute

America has wealth, innovation, and access to the best of everything. So why is our health-care system so broken? Why does it cost more than ever and deliver less? How do we solve the problems of the uninsured and seniors who lack drug coverage? And equally important, why is the Canadian system, widely touted as a sparkling example of compassion and universal access, actually a disastrous model to be avoided? This book cuts through the fear and confusion surrounding health-care policy. It explains in clear and simple terms why the system is broken and how to fix it.

To buy this book, go to: http://www.pacificresearch.org/onlinestore/detail.php?id=150

America's Top Doctors
John Connolly, EdD
Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd

Now in its fifth edition, America's Top Doctors, from Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., the trusted source for healthcare choices, is the authoritative guide to finding the nation's top specialists. When the nature of a disease or medical condition warrants identifying the TOP doctor in the nation for diagnosis or treatment of that particular problem, you need America's Top Doctors. The guide identifies more than 5,000 top specialists throughout the U.S. in more than 60 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 1,700 diseases and medical conditions. The physician profiles are arranged by specialty or subspecialty and are organized geographically within each specialty/subspecialty. You can also search by disease, condition, procedure or technique by using the Special Interest Index or by name in the Alphabetical Listing of Doctors. In addition to the listings of specialists, America's Top Doctors also presents vital information on select leading medical centers and specialty hospitals throughout the country.

To buy this book, go to: http://www.castleconnolly.com/books/index.cfm

America's Top Doctors for Cancer
John Connolly, EdD
Castle Connolly Medical, Ltd

Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.'s America's Top Doctors for Cancer is the very first book to identify the nation's most outstanding physicians for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers in adults and children, America's leading cancer specialists. This guide contains detailed profiles of more than 2,000 of the nation's leading specialists, across more than 40 medical specialties, involved in the diagnosis and treatment of cancers in adults and children. The doctors were selected by Castle Connolly's physician-led research team based on comprehensive national surveys of physicians and medical leaders all across the country. America's Top Doctors for Cancer also contains valuable information on some of the nation's leading medical centers and specialty hospitals for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Other vital information for consumers in this must-have guide are information on locating clinical trials, and how to accessing the resources and services of the National Institutes on Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

To buy this book, go to: http://www.castleconnolly.com/books/index.cfm

Noble Vision
Genevieve (Gen) LaGreca

Healthcare writer and former pharmaceutical chemist Gen LaGreca creates a romantic suspense novel that delves into the conflicts between private care and state control of today's healthcare. The story portrays an innovative surgeon's battle with his state-run health system over a new treatment he is prohibited from using. His struggles come to a head when a beautiful ballerina he has been admiring from afar is injured and needs it. If he obeys the rules and sticks to the ineffective methods of the past, his patient will be permanently disabled; but if he defies the law to begin his unauthorized new procedure, he will lose his license. The story presents a gripping account of an innovator caught in a bureaucracy that fosters conformity and obedience. The surgeon ultimately must confront the entire healthcare system to fight for his work and his patient. Through the emotional power of fiction, this novel vividly dramatizes the dangers of socialized medicine. It carries testimonials from Milton Friedman, Walter Williams, Steve Forbes, Jane Orient, and past president of the AMA Edward Annis.

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Saving The Soul Of Medicine
By Margaret A. Mahony, M.D.

Take an intimate journey with compassionate and concerned doctor, Margaret A. Mahony, M.D., during her last year in managed health care (often called "mismanaged" or "mangled" care). A timely and honest look at what works and what doesn’t in the world of medicine today. She explores the AMA’s Code of Medical Principles, including: "A physician shall be dedicated to providing competent medical service with compassion and respect for human dignity."

Based on hundreds of true stories and viewpoints of patients, doctors, nurses, and others in the health field. Inspiring essays demonstrate the spiritual dimension of the physician--patient relationship and how to heal it. Such a relationship is often excluded by present managed care mandates. Managed health care has not only affected patients. It has had a major impact on physicians and others in health care as well. Their lives, careers, and aspirations in health care have been painfully unsettled. The author often asks health care professionals why they cooperate, in spite of their anger and misery? Several essays provide insight into seemingly inexplicable behavior.

Margaret A. Mahony, M.D. is a practicing physician in San Jose, CA. She was born and raised in Illinois. She received her medical education at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. She trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Los Angeles County Medical Center. She has been in full-time private practice in San Jose for 11 years. Presently, her private practice is devoted to women’s health issues, with a focus on prevention and wellness in the perimenopausal / menopausal transitions. She is the Director of the Women’s Health Program at the Center for Integrated Medicine at O’Connor Hospital in San Jose. She lives with her husband and their two children.

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The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
By David Gratzer, MD

"David Gratzer is a practicing psychiatrist who combines firsthand knowledge of medical practice in both his native Canada and the U.S. with an independent point of view and a rare capacity for lucid exposition of complex technical material. . . If you want a well-written, interesting yet authoritative and thorough account of what is wrong with medicine today and how to cure American health care, this is the book for you."

- Milton Friedman,
Nobel Laureate, Economics (from foreword to The Cure)

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Healthcare Happily Ever After
Robert Hopper, PhD and Debra Hopper
A.D. Banker and Company
$9.95
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"Regardless of your politics, Healthcare Happily Ever After will sway you completely to the side of health savings accounts. Follow along with an imaginary Presidential hopeful who sets out to find the solution to America's healthcare problems. Along the way you will meet an intrepid aide, a romantic economist, a compassionate actuary, a befuddled HR director, a doting Treasury official, a brave disabled woman, and a New Age health enthusiast. In the end they all agree-HSAs are the very best healthcare choice for America."

The Bitter Pill: Where Did My Benefits Go?
Bob G. Shupe
ESP, Inc.
$18.95
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"Millions of Americans either lose their benefits or have them reduced every year. Most health care providers, insurance industry personnel, and employers agree that the primary reason for this devastating occurrence is increasing cost.

What they do not agree on is the definition of the word cost. Some believe one of the solutions is association health plans-Picture: Bob G. Shupe, Author of The Bitter Pillthe pooling of small employers to allow greater savings through mass purchase. This concept, however, creates another set of problems, and has failed more often than it has worked. Another school of thought supports national health care or state mandated coverage as the answer; big government is the final cure for everything. While national health care, or single payer, may work in socialized countries, it is not likely to work in capitalist America. Others offer no real solutions, except to debate the issue and hope the problem will fix itself.

The Bitter Pill was written to not only define the real problem of reduced or eliminated benefits due to increasing costs, but to also offer real solutions."

Who Killed Health Care?
Regina Herzlinger
McGraw Hill
240 Pages

(From Consumer Power Report #82)

Regina Herzlinger has hit a home run with her new book, "Who Killed Health Care?" Regi's reputation as a scholar, communicator, and original thinker is already well established. The new volume adds a whole new element to her formidable resume - that of a take-no-prisoners street fighter.

"Who Killed Health Care?" is more than just another addition to a growing body of literature around consumer empowerment in health care. It is a direct attack on the health care establishment that has grown fat and happy by pretending that people are stupid. People are not stupid, and they are beginning to figure out who is responsible for the mess the establishment has made. Regina Herzlinger has helped us identify the culprits.

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