July 5th, 2006

Money Is Not The Cure - Controversies in Healthcare - Seymour Handler, M.D. - Recent years have seen drastic increases in the cost of health care. Driving this increase is a common misconception: people at all levels of society—from the lay public to medical experts—firmly believe that spending more on medical care and research will result in corresponding improvements in life expectancy and quality of living. Proposals to manage rising costs and to increase benefits include universal health insurance, improved information infrastructure, and more, but not one addresses the yield of these vast expenditures. Dr. Seymour Handler makes the radical claim that the modest improvements in modern medical care do not justify the inflated cost of new technologies and therapies. More medical care is not necessarily better medical care, and yet the cycle of expensive testing, unnecessary prescriptions, and life-sustaining but not life-improving treatments drives the price of care ever higher. To order the book go to www.bookhousefulfillment.com or call 1.800.901.3480 - Ext. 118