Hello everyone! I am a doctor and have published in peer-reviewed medical journals, and am now looking to write a book on health reform. It's nice to have a community I can come to harass (kidding) and ask advice from. Looking forward to getting inspiration from all of you!
Hi , i'm also new writing my first novel about 35,000 words in just fancied a bit of company and advise.
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Welcome to the forums, Kaptivate! Please don't harass though, we already had one memember here harass me and he got banned
Welcome, Kaptivate. Great time for a book on health care reform, given the recent SCOTUS opinion that had my facebook news feed on fire.
Yes, it drew a lot of surprises. I was not sure what to expect, but was expecting fireworks -- and we got them!
That would be great, but costs for healthcare are rising everywhere. So ultimately we need to get to "cost-effective" care and the dirty word of rationing will be coming up. There is some data showing that about 30% of costs are from inefficiencies, and that may be a way to cut costs. But overall things such as aging populations, new technologies, complex chronic diseases (people living longer with them rather than dying as in the past) all add to the costs. Even in European countries, I believe this seems to be happening. We in the US just have a very complex system that could use some cleaning up..........I hope. I am hoping to write about reform from the patient-provider relationship. A lot of discussion about "top-down" reform (trickle down policy), but nothing from the "bottom-up" (i.e. how the needs of patients and their providers should define the reform).
