HEALTH SCARE The Truth Behind America’s Health Care Crisis
Rene P Moret
Synergy Books

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Rene P Moret’s HEALTH SCARE The Truth Behind America’s Health Care Crisis is a work of 149 pages comprising 14 chapters, an Introduction and a Bibliography.

Chapter information includes Health Care vs Sick Care, Health Insurance Guarantees Higher Costs in addition to discussion of Group Health Insurance: leading to everyone Paying for Other People’s Bad Habits. I found particularly interesting that while insurance may shore up the expansion of good sick care; it does not do so well when it comes to well care which diminishes the health care system.

Subject matter addressed includes Health Insurance’s Inimitable Conflicts of Interest, The Progression of Employer-Financed Health Care and whether more care is always better care. I read the section regarding Physician’s Offices with particular interest. Are they really stuck in the Dark Ages? Writer, health care executive Moret points out that deficiency in administrative efficiency within many Doctor’s practices is a large problem. Moret suggests that the old paper records may be at the root of the problem and that using electronic medical recording may be better.

Moret notes that costs are becoming more and more out of control, that prescribing a workable plan is not always easy and that accountability must become more than just a word.

The work concludes with Moret’s description of a great health care system is often rooted in misconception regarding just what it really takes to produce a great health care system. Moret notes that centralized funding is a means to an end as opposed to the current system which has too many market forces in favor of the status quo to effect much change.

In a 149 page work it is impossible list every problem with health care in the US; Moret details some of the chief problems that he believes to be contributing to the escalation in cost of health care in our country. One development addressed by Moret is 1997 legislation passed by Congress, Direct to Consumer Advertising, has done much to lead major drug companies to circumvent the long-established doctor-patient relationship by creating demand via marketing drugs directly to consumers. Moret discusses too an increasing quandary; the so called defensive medicine practice, taking place as doctors swerve from sound medical procedure, perhaps at patient insistence to order tests or processes primarily to evade threat of a medical mismanagement lawsuit.

It is mind boggling to consider that in the US nearly 50 million citizens have gone without health care in the decades just past and that while the US ranks 37 out of 191 countries the U.S. health care system spends a larger segment of the gross domestic product than does any other country. The March 2010 legislation, President Obama signed into law is intended to change health care for all Americans.

Moret dedicates the final chapters of Health Scare to delineation of what he feels is a pretty common sense proposal repairing the present system toward being more cost effective while providing more and better care.

I found Rene P. Moret’s book to be interesting, thought provoking, filled with facts, diagrams and illustrations to drive home the point that after working in the health care industry for more than two decades, Moret, an independent health care consultant and former CEO of North American Medical Management in California has a definite notions about health care, the problems we face and how those problems may be fixed.

Reading Health Scare clearly indicates that Writer Moret does not support the 2000 page health care bill recently enacted by Congress. He is of the belief that this plan will significantly enlarge costs and eventually result in rationing of necessary health care services.

Mr. Moret, a certified public accountant he sees the health care and insurance problems we face as obvious and repairable without government intervention via present health care legislation.

Interesting, thought provoking; Happy to recommend Rene P Moret’s HEALTH SCARE The Truth Behind America’s Health Care Crisis.