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Review: Is a patient-centered system the solution to health care insurance reform?

on Mon, 2013-03-18 10:54   michelle

Beginning with the death of his father from an avoidable hospital-acquired infection, David Goldhill launches an indictment of the U.S. health care system which, he shows in his book “Catastrophic Care,” is fraught with ineffective care, serious and preventable risk to patients and extraordinary overall cost.

Goldhill, a cable company CEO, has experience changing health care. He is a member of the Leapfrog Group, a business coalition that uses employee insurance buying power to leverage health systems to improve patient safety.

Story Date: 
March 17, 2013
News Author: 
William P. Moran
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