Ezekiel J Emanuel
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English
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A doctor and a leading thinker in healthcare reform describes what he believes medical care will look like in the future and outlines the 12 key practices required for physicians, doctor offices and hospitals to evolve and provide excellent patient care--Publisher's description.
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In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the Supreme Court, it even precipitated a government shutdown. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"Health care is the largest employer in America, one of the largest perceived drains on the budget of the Federal government, a system with the capacity to bankrupt entire state economies, and one of the areas of personal expenditure that gives individual American citizens most financial anxiety. It matters like almost no other dimension of the government and private sector. Yet the system is widely misunderstood, and is a confusing maze to most of...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one question: Which country has the best healthcare? He set off to find an answer. The US spends more than any other nation, nearly $4 trillion, on healthcare. Yet, for all that expense, the US is not ranked #1 -- not even close. In Which Country Has the World's Best Healthcare? Ezekiel Emanuel profiles 11 of the world's healthcare systems in pursuit of the best or at least...
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Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In this anthology, some of today's leading thinkers, activists, and medical visionaries describe the many successes in the fifty-year war on cancer and the ways in which our deeper failings as a society have held us back from a more complete success. Together they present a map of the battlefield across dimensions of science, government, equity, business, the patient provider experience, and more, documenting our emerging understanding of cancer's...
