America’s Bitter Pill

America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Steven Brill ID: B00RC2NYRA

America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s much-anticipated, sweeping narrative of how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing – and failing to change – the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. Brill probed the depths of our nation’s healthcare crisis in his trailblazing Time magazine Special Report, which won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Interest. Now he broadens his lens and delves deeper, pulling no punches and taking no prisoners. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the fight, amid an onslaught of lobbying, to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America’s largest, most dysfunctional industry – an industry larger than the entire economy of France. It’s a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his Time cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. Brill questions all the participants in the drama, including the president, to find out what happened and why. He asks the head of the agency in charge of the Obamacare website how and why it crashed. And he tells the cliffhanger story of the tech wizards who swooped in to rebuild it. Brill gets drug lobbyists to open up on the deals they struck to protect their profits in return for supporting the law. And he buttresses all these accounts with meticulous research and access to internal memos, emails, notes, and journals written by the key players during all the pivotal moments. Brill is there with patients when they are denied cancer care at a hospital, or charged $77 for a box of gauze pads. Then he asks the multimillion-dollar executives who run the hospitals to explain why.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 17 hours and 10 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Random House AudioAudible.com Release Date: January 5, 2015Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00RC2NYRA Best Sellers Rank: #6 in Books > Law > Health & Medical Law > Medical Law & Legislation #7 in Books > Business & Money > Insurance > Health #7 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Nonfiction > Law
AMERICA’S BITTER PILL is an analysis of the US medical care industry, and how Obamacare was implemented. The perspective of the writer is one of a journalist (and sometimes a patient.) That is, this is not a political issue for him–he doesn’t take sides, other than recognizing that health care costs are heading our country for a disaster.

The author highlights one big advantage of Obamacare, in that so many more people have insurance than did before: "Basically what Obamacare did was a very good thing. It gave tens of millions more people in this country the opportunity to have health care. And it’s a longtime national disgrace that we’re the only developed country where tens of millions of our citizens can’t get health care…"

However, here’s the bad news. This expansion in coverage came via expanding the Medicaid program; now, "Taxpayers are paying for tens of millions of new customers to pay the same exorbitant prices and fees that everybody else has been paying." So, while it’s great that more people are covered–it’s at an unsustainable rate: "We cannot continue to be a country where health care prices are 40, 50, 60 percent higher than they are in every other country where the health care results are as good, or better, than ours. It’s unsustainable."

On prescription drug prices, the author exposes a "secret," which isn’t really much of a secret anymore: "The exact same prescription drug in the United States is typically 40 or 50 percent less in Canada, in the United Kingdom, in France, in Germany and Australia — in every other country in the world because every other country in the world controls the price of monopoly drugs…
Americans spent an estimated $3 trillion on healthcare in 2014 – about 18% of GDP, more than any other developed nation, with average lifespans ranking only #31 in the world. On artificial knees and hips alone, we spent about 55% more than Hollywood took in at the box office. Also $85.9 billion on back pain – more than state, county, and city/town police forces, and of which experts contend as much as half is useful. Medtronic, maker of a variety of medical devices, charges such high prices that its gross profit margins nearly double that of Apple.

Author Brill is outraged by these high costs (still – after his 2013 Times article), as we all should be. Most of the book is taken up with detailing how the Affordable Care Act (ACA, alias ‘ObamaCare) came about. Per a credible consultant, the Obama health-plan formulators were convinced to pursue extending coverage to all rather than reducing costs. The reason – he/they saw the latter as going nowhere due to the strength of industry lobbyists. (Healthcare spends 4X the #2 group of lobbyists, our feared military-industrial complex.) HillaryCare and Massachusetts had also taken the same path, undoubtedly for the same reason. However, spending most of the book on detailing the personalities involved and how the long, detailed, overly complex ACA came about was not a good use of Brill’s time/talent, nor that of readers either..

The Obama team should have at least marched into legislative negotiations with a well-thought-out plan. However, they didn’t, and thereby became sitting ducks for industry lobbyists. Thus, the ACA failed to even achieve its main goal of universal coverage, and disappointed Brill (and myself) on directly reducing costs.

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Author: Jeffery Deaver ID: B00JELO35Y

In his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced listeners to Lincoln Rhyme – the nation’s most renowned investigator and forensic detective. Now, a new killer is on the loose: A criminal inspired by the Bone Collector. And Rhyme must untangle the twisted web of clues before the killer targets more victims – or Rhyme himself. The Skin Collector The killer’s methods are terrifying. He stalks the basements and underground passageways of New York City. He tattoos his victims’ flesh with cryptic messages, using a tattoo gun loaded with poison, resulting in an agonizing, painful death. When a connection is made to the Bone Collector – the serial killer who terrorized New York more than a decade ago – Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are immediately drawn into the case. Rhyme, Sachs, and the NYPD must race against time to answer the many questions the investigation uncovers: Whom will the killer attack next? What is the message behind the victims’ tattoos? Does the killer’s own inking – a fanged centipede sporting a woman’s face – hold any significance? And what is his ultimate mission? As time runs out, Rhyme discovers that the past has returned to haunt him in the most troubling way imaginable….
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 13 hours and 15 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Hachette AudioAudible.com Release Date: May 13, 2014Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00JELO35Y Best Sellers Rank: #1523 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Mysteries & Thrillers #6480 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Fiction & Literature #11327 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense
Jeffery Deaver’s last book featuring Lincoln Rhyme, Kill Room, left me slightly underwhelmed. There was a lot of political comment in the book that I found myself glossing over. Deaver also took quadriplegic Rhyme away from his New York City townhouse to a crime scene in the Bahamas, but it just didn’t work for me. It seemed forced and almost gimmicky. It was an okay read, but not a standout in the series for me.

However, Deaver’s latest book, The Skin Collector (#11) takes us back to what Lincoln Rhyme does best – and the type of story I like best – solving cases based on the evidence and minutiae gathered at a crime scene by his team. And Lincoln’s superlative powers of deduction.

The Skin Collector opens with a wonderfully creepy scene that introduces us to the perpetrator, Billy. It’s one of those chilling prologues that promises a great read. And it delivered. Billy is a tattoo artist who delights in finding pristine skin for inking his cryptic messages. And his choice of ink is deadly. Billy Haven is clever – he’s studied Rhyme’s methods and leaves little if anything behind at his scenes. Yes, plural – Billy has a plan and it looks like he’s taking inspiration from Lincoln’s first case – The Bone Collector.

Deaver employs the history of New York and it’s tunnel and underground passages to great effect in The Skin Collector. I ended up checking out many of his references online – it’s pretty fascinating history.

I thought I had predicted where the plot was going to go about three quarters of the way through the book. But I was pleasantly proven wrong! Deaver inserts a twist, then a turn, then another twist – and I think there may have been another turn.

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Olds’ Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan, 10/e ) Kindle Edition

Olds’ Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women’s Health Across the Lifespan, 10/e (Maternal-Newborn & Women’s Health Nursing (Olds)) [Print Replica] Kindle Edition
Author: Michele C. Davidson ID: B00XIH40LW

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File Size: 132947 KBPrint Length: 1128 pagesSimultaneous Device Usage: Up to 2 simultaneous devices, per publisher limitsPublisher: Prentice Hall; 10 edition (December 24, 2014)Publication Date: July 27, 2015Language: EnglishID: B00XIH40LWText-to-Speech: Not enabled X-Ray: Not Enabled Word Wise: Not EnabledLending: Not Enabled Enhanced Typesetting: Not Enabled Best Sellers Rank: #270,842 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store) #209 in Books > Medical Books > Nursing > Women’s Health, Obstetrics & Gynecology #242 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Personal Health > Women’s Health > Pregnancy & Childbirth #488 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Education & Teaching > Higher & Continuing Education

Book I needed for class. Arrived on time. No issues
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The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner: Includes DSM-5 Updates 5th Edition

The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner: Includes DSM-5 Updates 5th Edition
Author: Arthur E. Jongsma Jr. ID: 111806786X

From the Author

As the Senior Author and Series Editor, I am pleased to announce that the new editions of our Treatment Planners have been released. We have been working on them as a team of authors for over two years. I am indebted to my coauthors who have deep expertise in the clinical field addressed in each Treatment Planner. Dr. Tim Bruce, especially, has brought his wide knowledge base in Evidence-based Practice to bear on several of our Planners. Each Planner has, of course, been updated with the new DSM-5/ICD-10 codes, but beyond that there are several other improvements in the latest books. I believe you will find this expanded and revised edition is a significant step forward in being a resource for finding a menu of succinctly written statements describing Interventions to help you help your client recover. Allow me to list the new material you will find in our latest attempt to help you write clinically sound and complete treatment plans:  

1) The latest research-supported, evidence-based Interventions

2) Updated and expanded bibliotherapy references as well as research related references for each chapter topic

3) A new Appendix which provides written Objectives and Interventions that capture the essential theme of the ten Core Principles of the SAMSHA-endorsed Recovery Model

4) A new Suggested Diagnosis section in each chapter that provides a helpful transition from DSM-IV/ICD-9 to the newly listed DSM-5/ICD-10 diagnostic codes and labels

5) A more complete integration of suggested Homework Exercises in each chapter to support Interventions

6) A set of Objectives and Interventions added to each chapter to assist in assessing specifiers relevant to DSM-5 diagnosis

Arthur E. Jongsma, Jr. PhD

From the Back Cover

• Treatment plan components for 43 behaviorally based presenting problems
• Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions—plus space to record your own treatment plan options
• A step-by-step guide to writing treatment plans that meet the requirements of most accrediting bodies, insurance companies, and third-party payors
• Includes new Evidence-Based Practice Interventions as required by many public funding sources and private insurers

PracticePlanners The Bestselling treatment planning system for mental health professionals

The Complete Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner, Fifth Edition provides all the elements necessary to quickly and easily develop formal treatment plans that satisfy the demands of HMOs, managed care companies, third-party payors, and state and federal agencies.

• New edition features empirically supported, evidence-based treatment interventions including anger control problems, low self-esteem, phobias, and social anxiety
• Organized around 43 behaviorally based presenting problems, including depression, intimate relationship conflicts, chronic pain, anxiety, substance use, borderline personality, and more
• Over 1,000 prewritten treatment goals, objectives, and interventions—plus space to record your own treatment plan options
• Easy-to-use reference format helps locate treatment plan components by behavioral problem or DSM-5 diagnosis
• Includes a sample treatment plan that conforms to the requirements of most third-party payors and accrediting agencies including CARF, The Joint Commission (TJC), COA, and the NCQA

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Paperback: 608 pagesPublisher: Wiley; 5 edition (January 28, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 111806786XISBN-13: 978-1118067864 Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.6 x 10 inches Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Best Sellers Rank: #2,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Books > Textbooks > Social Sciences > Psychology > Psychotherapy #6 in Books > Medical Books > Psychology > Psychotherapy, TA & NLP #9 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Psychology & Counseling > Psychotherapy, TA & NLP

Research suggests that an ever increIDg number of practioners are relying on tools such as this to help formulate treatment plans.
As a graduate student, what I find useful about this book is that after you study a particular disorder—from the DSM-IV-TR itself, a good psychopathology text (see Davison & Neal’s Abnormal Psychology), and the DSM’s Diagnostic Criteria handbook, The Adult Psychotherapy Treatment Planner completes the loop.
I bought this book after taking a case studies class where the instructor did an absolutely miserable job in showing us the rhyme and reason behind a good treatment plan. Not satisfied that I knew enough about this critically important piece in the counseling process, I did some research and found this book to be the most highly regarded in this genre.
As subsequent classes deal with child and adolescent psychopathology, family psychopathology, etc. etc. I will be getting the treatment plans that correspond with these issues.

This book is designed to be a workbook–a resource for writing treatment plans. Be aware, if you buy the Kindle edition, the publisher puts a limit on how much you can copy from it—which means it’s usefulness is limited. I can not find anywhere in the text that states there is a copy limit or how much can be copied. The limit came as a complete surprise to me. I find this to be a major flaw in the usefulness of this book for me.

I bought the book expecting assistance in writing measurable treatment plans. I was disappointed. While the text does provide helpful ideas, most are not measurable. If you need something that helps define measurable terms, this is not the book to get.

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