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| | Description | 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. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Sally C. Pipes | | Paperback: | 219 pages | | Publisher: | Pacific Research Institute | | Publication Date: | September 01, 2004 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0936488921 | | Package Length: | 8.8 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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52 of 67 found the following review helpful:
 The book that can save two health care systems Sep 30, 2004
By Constant Reader
Sally Pipes's clear-eyed analysis of the problems with both the US and Canadian health care systems is exactly what is needed to cut through the campaign rhetoric of this season. As a Canadian who lives in the US, Pipes is able to weigh the pluses and minuses of both systems -- finding more fault in Canada's sclerotic single-payer system, where waiting lists delay patients' access to life-saving treatments, but not giving either system a clean bill of health. I strongly recommend this short, but thorough and anecdote-packed, look at how to fix two great countries' inadequate health care systems.
37 of 49 found the following review helpful:
Road map for a solution Feb 01, 2005
By William Fulcher
"CountryDoc"
I love when a writer nails a problem and also recognizes the political and social difficulties we will face in trying to effect the solution. This Pipes has done well. As a young physician, I soon realized that the health of my community depended more on how I VOTED than how well I was trained. Now as a physician of 20 years, I have seen first hand how the current health care system fosters a sense of entitlement to "free" care with no accountability or responsibility on the part of the consumer(patients): here in the US not Canada! The solution is NOT more of the same government intervention and insulation of patients from their health care decisions. But try telling this to the media, academia or even politicos who are either ignorant of the facts or fearful of their constituents.
Should be required reading for all MDs in training.
28 of 38 found the following review helpful:
Review the CONTENT of the Book Oct 29, 2005
By K. Furr
Interesting that the One-Star reviews below are from people who did not read the book and do not comment on its actual contents.
If the writer has a particular viewpoint -- golly, maybe that's what motivated her to WRITE A BOOK. Duh. It would be a pretty bleak literary world if writers were not allowed to have opinions, or to write as a response to their own intellectual motivations.
Those of you who'd slam her simply becuase you can verify that her political and economic opinions vary from yours, might actually learn something from considering another viewpoint and indulging in the information that supports that viewpoint. If you read her book, and can spar with its content, fine, knock youself out.
18 of 62 found the following review helpful:
 Not true Dec 05, 2005
By N. Haymes
As an American who now lives in Canada, Sally Pipes is not at all correct. There are NO waiting lists and I call my doctor and I get in that day. I LOVE the health care system here. I used to pay for my health insurance before I moved to canada and now I don't and I get the same care for free!! Plus I get all the name brand drugs if I need them. When I was living in the US, my health insurance turned me down for pre-natal vitimans, which I thought was ridiculious. I don't know where sally gets her facts from.
19 of 85 found the following review helpful:
American Hubris Mar 11, 2005
By Ivanhoe Smith
"IS"
People who write books like this get invited to all the right places in this country. The reason is simple. Our system is is only possible medical system. It's not that other systems do not exist - it is that people in our system cannot even IMAGINE that other viable systems exist, must less that they function quite well. We never hear about them except in the negative. Sally Pipes would never be allowed to speak in our system unless she came with a satchel of critcisms of her own system. That was her ticket - that's how she got on stage. There's a pervasive sort of censorship going on here made all the worse because people in this country don't know how pervasive that censorhsip is. We are a free and open and intellectually closed shop.
Sally Pipes will hit the forum circuit down here and get invited to all the interview shows. This is because she criticizes the Canadian system. Were she to praise it, she might as well be sitting in an igloo.
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