Nocera, Joseph
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2023
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Summary: Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 FAUMetzl, Jonathan
Summary: "With the rise of the Tea Party and the election of Donald Trump, many middle- and lower-income white Americans threw their support behind conservative politicians who pledged to make life great again for people like them. But as Dying of Whiteness shows, the right-wing policies that resulted from this white backlash put these voters' very health at risk--and, in the end, threaten everyone's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 METSlavitt, Andy
Summary: 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 / Publication Date: St. Martins Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 SLASummary: With the disastrous launch of the HealthCare.gov website in fall 2013, critics of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," were given more fuel for the fire. Will Obamacare succeed, or is it beyond rescue?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Birx, Deborah L.
Summary: "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 andassist the already faltering federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For weeks, she'd been raising the alarm behind the scenes about what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 BIRAllen, Arthur
Summary: "In this account of vaccination's miraculous, inflammatory past and its uncertain future, journalist Arthur Allen reveals a history both illuminated with hope and shrouded by controversy--from Edward Jenner's discovery of smallpox vaccine in 1796 to Pasteur's vaccines for rabies and cholera, to those that safeguarded the children of the twentieth century, and finally to the tumult currently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 614.47 ALLEl-Sayed, Abdul
Summary: "A citizen's guide to America's most debated policy-in-waiting. There are few issues as consequential in the lives of Americans as health care--and few issues more politically vexing. Every single American will interact with the health care system at somepoint in their lives, and most people will find that interaction less than satisfactory. And yet for every dollar spent in our economy, 19...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2021
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Summary: On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem—an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 HEMSummary: "What the health is a surprising, and at times hilarious, investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about our nation's health and how big business influences it"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHAButler, Robert N.
Summary: From the Publisher: Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term "ageism" and made "Alzheimer's" a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years, and the growing number of people over age sixty-five. Alarmingly, our society has not adapted to this change. In this urgent and ultimately optimistic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 BUTSummary: Michael Moore interviews Americans who have been denied treatment by the United States health care insurance companies -- companies who sacrifice essential health services in order to maximize profits. Sheds light on the how complicated it can become for communities and individuals, and the sacrifices they have made when they are denied health care coverage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007
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Summary: "[The author] dissects the 2,572-page health law and lays out how it will affect your family's health and finances, your relationships with your doctor, and even your tax bill ... in plain English"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Pub. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 ROSHumphries, Suzanne
Summary: This autobiography tells the intricate and personal story one doctor's path through medical school and out into academia, specialty medicine, and practice, having to conform to the system's standards. Like many doctors, she was on the way to becoming one of the walking dead. Then, one day she realized that policy was harming her patients, and she took a stand. This resulted in hostility and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUMPHRIES, SUZANNE HUMMoeller, Philip
Summary: "The latest installment in the successful series, Get what's yours for healthcare explains how to get the high-quality healthcare you need at a fair price"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1068 MOEAtlas, Scott W.
Summary: "When Dr. Scott W. Atlas was tapped by Donald Trump to join his COVID Task Force, he was immediately thrust into a maelstrom of scientific disputes, policy debates, raging egos, politically motivated lies, and cynical media manipulation. Numerous myths and distortions surround the Trump Administration's handling of the crisis, and many pressing questions remain unanswered. In this unfiltered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liberatio Protocol 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1962 ATLGruber, Jonathan.
Summary: "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. Polls also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang 2011
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Summary: "New York Times"-bestselling author Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the U.S. can't seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.10973 REIRosenthal, Elisabeth
Summary: "An award-winning 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. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Health RosenthalSummary: Do people have a right to health care? While every other industrialized nation has established some system of universal coverage, the United States long resisted such a program. Should universal health coverage be the federal government's responsibility?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Starr, Paul
Summary: "In no other country has health care served as such a volatile flashpoint of ideological conflict. America has endured a century of rancorous debate on health insurance, and despite the passage of legislation in 2010, the battle is not yet over. This book is a history of how and why the United States became so stubbornly different in health care, presented by an expert with unsurpassed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 STASummary: Just because we can extend life, should we? Americans spend trillions of dollars on health care every year. Medicare alone costs taxpayers over
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Reid, T. R.
Summary: Discusses successful health-care systems worldwide, disproving American myths of "socialized medicine" to find possible paths toward reform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 362.1 REIDay, Rosemarie
Summary: "This book's purpose is to galvanize women to push for universal health care in the United States"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020