Patient Power – NCPAThinkTank

The thesis of this book is simple: If we want to solve the nation’s health care crisis, we must apply the same common-sense principles to medical care that we apply to other goods and services. Health care is often said to be a necessity. However, there are other necessities such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. If we paid for any of these items the way we pay for health care, we would face a similar crisis. If we paid only 5 cents on the dollar for food, clothing, or housing, for example, costs would explode in each of those markets.

The Patient Power Pamphlet: sp_pp_pamphlet.pdf (PDF | 6MB)

For the complete book: sp_pp_PatientPowerComplete.pdf (PDF | 10MB)

Book by section:

Front Cover

Preface

Part I – Introduction

Part II – From Competition to Cost-Plus Health Care

Part III – Regulation the Cost-Plus System

Part IV – The Chain-Letter Economics of Medicare

Part V – National Health Insurance

Part VI – Dismantling the Cost-Plus System

Index

Back Cover