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(More customer reviews)The last two chapters ("Seven Things Your Doctor Wishes You Knew" and "A Prescription for What's Really Ailing Us") are the most important. This part of the book could stand alone, published as a mini-book or as a pamphlet, available for wide distribution.
Chapter 11 goes into detail about the nature of family practice today. It examines the world doctors inhabit under the weight of regulations, paperwork, lawsuits, and insurance companies. On pages 141 & 142, Dr. Burgess praises Governor Mitch Daniels from Indiana for his "Healthy Indiana" program, which empowers its state employees to be in charge of their own health care (via a "High Deductible Health Plan with a Health Savings Account.") This is what what David Goldhill promoted in his essay "How American Health Care Killed my Father" (published in the "Atlantic Magazine," September 2009 issue).
Chapter 12 gives us nine prescriptions for fixing our health care system. Michael Burgess writes succinctly, in only 18 pages, those nine remedies (pages 151-169). They include: insurance reform, tax fairness, portability, price transparency, etc.
On page 167, the "Prescription 8 -- Preventative Care and Wellness Programs" certainly makes sense. As in auto insurance where premiums are raised for motorists who like to speed and drive recklessly, health insurance companies should be allowed to raise premiums on individuals who live an unhealthy lifestyle (and reward those of us with lower premiums who exercise regularly and watch our weight). These kind of incentives should be available to everyone, including independent contractors. (Under Obamacare via "The Safeway Amendment," the wellness program is available only to **EMPLOYEES** of self-insured corporations; its regulations are so complex that a business attorney would be required -- lawyers are expensive!).
The author Michael Burgess is on our side -- us ordinary Americans, us health care consumers. His book is mainstream and "Middle America." He is no right-wing windbag like Rush Limbaugh (who recently attacked Mitch Daniels in one of his usual tirades.) Those of us in the "Tea Party Movement" are neither left nor right. Please write another book!
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In 2010, the United States House of Representatives passed ObamaCare into law - an overt step away from liberty toward socialism. And while the powers at be claimed a sweeping victory bolstered by national pride, many saw what the legislation truly promised. In Doctor in the House, Congressman Michael Burgess applies his three decades of experienceworking inside our nation's health care system to the diagnosis of our true ailments. In doing so, he offers a clear, common sense prescription for making our system more excellent, more efficient, and less expensive--for all Americans.A third generation physician, Burgess writes with obvious passion for the healing arts and powerful convictions about the limits of government intervention in the doctor-patient relationship. Doctor in the House brings clarity and common sense to the perplexing national debate over the new health care bill.
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