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Publication Date
2023
Language
English
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"Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the Covid pandemic and shut down scientific dissent. One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America's Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy during the pandemic. Senator Paul presents the evidence...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
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When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades. In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern...
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Publication Date
2014
Language
English
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The ultimate resource for understanding and navigating the Affordable Care Act. Katz uses simple and easy-to-follow language in answering the important questions about the ACA, and shows you how to get the most out of your healthcare plan without having to sacrifice your needs or empty your pockets.
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Publisher
Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc
Publication Date
2026.
Language
English
Description
"Confused by Medicare? Get answers from Maximize Your Medicare, an informative guide by nationally recognized expert Jae W. Oh. Maximize Your Medicare helps readers understand how and what to choose when deciding on Medicare options. Written in a clear and concise style, Maximize Your Medicare is a vital resource for every American aged sixty-five or older, as well as for their families and care coordinators."-- Amazon.
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Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
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New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems.
"At a moment of drastic political upheaval, a shocking investigation into the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, as well as solutions to its myriad of problems. In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled...
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Publisher
Humanix Books
Publication Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act-- also known as ObamaCare-- is becoming a reality with major provisions set to start soon. This guide cover the law in easy-to-read language, so that you get the tools you need to navigate ObamaCare.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Publication Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Daschle examines the weaknesses of the health care system in the United States, arguing why previous attempts at national health coverage failed. He proposes that an independent Federal Health Board be created and that employers' plans, Medicaid and Medicare be merged with an expanded FEHBP (Federal Employee Health Benefits Program) that would cover everyone.
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Publication Date
2022
Language
English
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"Our pre-March 2020 world is gone forever. Irretrievable. For in league with mass surrender to all-powerful technology, the "restrictions" against human assembly, speech and gathering, culture and worship brought on by pandemic panic have brought new cultural norms frighteningly at odds with traditional Western notions of freedom and independent thought. Indeed, in our fear of public ostracism and shaming and our ready abandonment of free, open, spontaneous,...
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Publication Date
2015.
Language
English
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Tells the story of the fight to pass and implement the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare.
"America's Bitter Pill is Steven Brill's much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing--and failing to change--the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Brill probed the depths of our nation's healthcare crisis in his...
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Publisher
St. Martins Press
Publication Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The former head of Obamacare presents an inside account of the US's failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic, chronicling what he saw and how much could have been prevented, and investigating the cultural, political and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life.
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Publisher
Harvest Creek Publishing & Design
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this book ... [the author] will expose the truth about COVID, the vaccines, and other dangerous drugs, providing many solutions to help everyone heal and become healthy again"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Brawley exposes the underbelly of healthcare today--the under-treatment of the poor, the over-treatment of the rich, the financial conflicts of interests physicians face, insurance that doesn't demand the best (or even cheapest) care, and a pharmaceutical behemoth concerned with selling drugs, not providing health.
16) Sicko
Publisher
Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Michael Moore critiques the American health care system, focusing especially on the HMOs, drug companies, and congressmen who profit from the status quo. Also includes an analysis of the health care systems in Canada, England, France and Cuba, where free universal health care is the norm.
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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Publication Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"A graphic explanation of the PPACA act"--Provided by publisher.
"Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works is a deeply informed, opinionated, immediately accessible explanation of why health care reform is essential, why the legislation Congress passed is our best bet for solving the problem, and why it would be disastrous if we revoked it. Poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans are against health care reform....
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Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Publication Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the collaborators behind the modern business classic All the Devils are Here comes a damning indictment of American capitalism-and the leaders that left us brutally unprepared for a global pandemic In 2020, the novel coronavirus pandemic made it painfully clear that the U.S. could not adequately protect its citizens. Millions of Americans suffered-and over a million died-in less than two years, while government officials blundered; prize-winning...
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Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Nortin Hadler's clearly reasoned argument surmounts the cacophony of the health care debate. Hadler urges everyone to ask health care providers how likely it is that proposed treatments will afford meaningful benefits and he teaches how to actively listen to the answer. Each chapter of Worried Sick is an object lesson on the uses and abuses of common offerings, from screening tests to medical and surgical interventions. By learning to distinguish...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In late February 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx--a lifelong federal health official who had worked at the CDC, the State Department, and the US Army across multiple presidential administrations--was asked to join the Trump White House Coronavirus Task Force and assist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she'd been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what she saw happening in public--from the apparent lack of...
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