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The Cure: A Blueprint for Solving America’s Healthcare Crisis
Focusing on the entire healthcare system and all of its various stakeholders, The Cure aims to provide a roadmap inclusive of both legislative and societal changes needed to improve the method by which healthcare is accessed, delivered and financed within the United States. With detailed analysis investigating both the cause and current status of major problems within the healthcare space, The Cure is able to provide insight and guidance to begin solving those issues. This book is written in a non-partisan manner and wastes no time with finger pointing, instead focusing on realistic goals and practical solutions to elevate and enhance the healthcare system. Outlining the need for transparency, reasonable regulation, and consumer engagement, along with other key drivers of cost and inefficiencies in healthcare, Seth Denson uses his vast industry experience to shine a spotlight on what is keeping America’s healthcare system sick, but more importantly, outline what is needed to cure it.
144 pages, Paperback
Published September 3, 2019
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November 26, 2023
This book helped me to understand the macro perspectives and motivations of the different actors within the complex system of health care in America. It lives up to its promise to not simply name the problems and point fingers but to also offer the outlines of solutions, I.e. The cure.
It's pragmatic, almost to the point of cynical, in its discussion of the fact that change won't voluntarily come from health care providers and insurers. Instead, the focus is on the positive change that can come from certain kinds of government regulation and more-informed consumer behaviors.
Fair enough, but I'm equally cynical in my government's ability to both do the right thing and do it right. So that leaves the change to me, and here's where I would've liked more from the author. He outlines and summarizes some steps for consumers in the final chapter, while acknowledging how ill equipped we really are. He's obviously in a position to prescribe recommendations in very granular and actionable language but chooses not to.
If the book had concluded with several chapters on how consumers can effectively navigate their own micro health care journeys, this would've been a 5 star book for me. And I recognize that he'd only set out to provide a macro level blueprint, not a consumer's instruction manual, and I believe he accomplished his goal, hence 4 stars.
It's pragmatic, almost to the point of cynical, in its discussion of the fact that change won't voluntarily come from health care providers and insurers. Instead, the focus is on the positive change that can come from certain kinds of government regulation and more-informed consumer behaviors.
Fair enough, but I'm equally cynical in my government's ability to both do the right thing and do it right. So that leaves the change to me, and here's where I would've liked more from the author. He outlines and summarizes some steps for consumers in the final chapter, while acknowledging how ill equipped we really are. He's obviously in a position to prescribe recommendations in very granular and actionable language but chooses not to.
If the book had concluded with several chapters on how consumers can effectively navigate their own micro health care journeys, this would've been a 5 star book for me. And I recognize that he'd only set out to provide a macro level blueprint, not a consumer's instruction manual, and I believe he accomplished his goal, hence 4 stars.
November 11, 2022
A very short book (a plus). I’m not sure the author proved his case, but then again, I am no rocket scientist (if I was a rocket scientist, I guess I’d be working for NASA) … so perhaps he was just talking about issues that are over my head. Anyway, I would agree with the author that something needs to change in our country regarding medical insurance and medical care. Costs are completely out of control.
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