Catastrophic Care

"A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care- how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system."
In 2007 David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a
well-regarded New York hospital. The bill, for several hundred thousand
dollars, was paid by Medicare. Angered, Goldhill became determined to
understand how it was possible that well-trained personnel equipped with
world-class technologies could be responsible for such inexcusable
carelessness—and how a business that failed so miserably could still be
rewarded with full payment. 
Catastrophic Care is the
eye-opening result. In it Goldhill explodes the myth that Medicare and
insurance coverage can make care cheaper and improve our health, and
shows how efforts to reform the system, including the Affordable Care
Act, will do nothing to address the waste of the health care industry,
which currently costs the country nearly $2.5 trillion annually and in
which an estimated 200,000 Americans die each year from preventable
errors. Catastrophic Care proposes a completely new approach, one that will change the way you think about one of our most pressing national problems.