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"Before you do anything else, make a note to read The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care. . .It might literally save your life" – THOMAS SOWELL
The Top 10 Myths of American Health Care
by Sally Pipes
The debate over American health care divides into two
camps. One maintains that only government can cure our
health care woes; the other holds that government is part
of the problem. Right now, advocates of government-run
health care clearly have the upper hand -- and like all
utopian promises, their proposal of free health care for
all sounds wonderful. But what would this vision look like
in reality? Is it true that our medical care can be saved
by a massive intervention of government in the American
economy? Now, in The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care,
health care scholar Sally Pipes of the Pacific Research
Institute argues that government-run health care is in fact
an empty promise built upon a foundation of myths.
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Each chapter focuses on one of the 10 most popular
myths in the health care debate. These are arguments made
by politicians, policymakers, commentators, and journalists
-- myths that have been repeated so often that the vast
majority of Americans think they're true:
> Myth One: Government health care is more efficient
> Myth Two: We're spending too much on health care
> Myth Three: 46 million Americans can't get health care
> Myth Four: High drug prices drive up health care costs
> Myth Five: Importing drugs would reduce health care costs
> Myth Six: Universal coverage can be achieved by forcing
everyone to buy insurance
> Myth Seven: Government prevention programs reduce health
care costs
> Myth Eight: We need more government to insure poor
Americans
> Myth Nine: Health information technology is a silver
bullet for reducing costs
> Myth Ten: Government-run health care systems in other
countries are better and cheaper than America's
One by one, Pipes -- a Canadian immigrant to the U.S.
who has seen government-run health care close up --
shatters those myths and offers alternative market-based
solutions that will cost less and be more effective in
fixing the problems that plague our medical system, while
also ensuring that American health care remains the best in
the world.
"This isn’t just a great book, it's a public service"
"Before you do anything else, make a note to read The
Top Ten Myths of American Health Care by Sally C. Pipes.
It might literally save your life, by checking the
political stampede toward a government-controlled medical
profession usually presented politically as 'universal
health care.'" -- Thomas Sowell
"This isn't just a great book, it's a public service --
exploding myths, clarifying complex issues, and surveying
important research. How to understand the debate on health
reform? Start by reading this book." -- David Gratzer, M.D.,
Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
"Pithy and incisive. . .Pipes dissects the ten widely
promulgated myths that will enable the U.S. federal
government to control your medical care. The threat posed
by these myths is real as the U.S. Congress continuously
acts, in small, clandestine, and dangerous ways to enable
the government to take your money to control your health
care system." -- Regina Herzlinger, Harvard Business School
"For anyone interested in getting to the core of
America's health care troubles, this is the perfect book.
And for health care policy makers, it should be required
reading." -- Steve Forbes, from his Foreword
"Americans can only hope that in a bipartisan moment,
President Obama picks up a copy of this excellent work." --
The Washington Times
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