January 9, 2013 - What follows is an ad for my book,
The Health Reform Maze: A Blueprint for Physician Practices [Paperback]
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Book Description
Publication Date: August 9, 2011
This is your roadmap for health reform to date. Although clear
exits and destinations remain murky, Dr. Reece has managed to create a
statistically entertaining map for health reform. What makes this book so
unique is Dr. Reece's keen insight and understanding of both physicians' and
patients' value system. When it comes to trying to understand the current
healthcare reform, this book covers it all in easily understandable language,
Dr. Reece approaches the unclear issue from the patient and the physician perspectives
while still managing to stay compelling, engaging, and even entertaining.
This
book, ideal for practice managers, physicians, medical directors, insurers,
policy makers, and even business school programs alike, is a must-read when
trying to tackle the questions surrounding health reform. The book contains
blog entries that deliver comprehensive but easy to read discussions concerning
the uncertainty, the threat of lower reimbursements, and what practices can do
in response to reform. This book breaks the trend of specialized, narrow
healthcare reform reports. Because of its multiple points of view and various
perspectives, it tells you everything you may want to know about health care
reform but were afraid to ask.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Healthcare Reform: an
oxymoron that is almost impossible to understand. The report contains more than
2500 pages and is so complicated that few doctors, politicians, or the American
public understand what s in it and what it all means. Dr. Richard Reece is
making an effort to bring some semblance of understanding to this situation. He
backs up his comments with statistics, facts, and his experience as a doctor.
He also adds a dash of humor as this is pretty strong stuff for most of us
physicians who are eyeball to eyeball with patients to digest. Dr. Reece uses
wonderful metaphors and sprinkles his chapters with quotes from the literature,
which makes reading this book so enjoyable. If you are looking for some insight
from one of our colleagues, and an enjoyable style of writing that borders on
entertaining, then I highly recommend you read The Health Reform Maze: A
Blueprint for Physician Practices. Y
ou won t be disappointed, and you will
enhance your understanding of a problem that affects every physician and every
American citizen. Neil Baum, MD, Urologist and Associate Clinical Professor of
Urology at Tulane Medical School and Louisiana State University Medical School
Dick Reece is a prolific health writer with a keen sense of what is happening
in the nation s healthcare sector. His new book is further testament to his
uncanny understanding of the effects of health reform efforts on patients,
physicians, and hospitals alike. His firm grasp of these many important and
complicated healthcare issues makes this book must reading for all those
interested in U.S. healthcare policy.
Tim Norbeck, CEO, The Physicians
Foundation Richard Reece, MD, is well known for his numerous and cogent
writings on America s healthcare issues as well as his keen insight and
understanding of both patients and physicians value systems. In his latest
book, The Health Reform Maze: A Blueprint for Physician Practices, Dr. Reece
has made another major contribution in bringing forth a unique understanding of
how reforms impact upon all affected parties. This book is a vital must read
for all of those who wish to better comprehend our complex and complicated healthcare
system as well as for those who entertain efforts to reform it. Walker L. Ray,
MD, Vice President, The Physicians Foundation, and Former President, Medical
Association of Georgia --Book Reviewers
In the midst of the confusion and haze of the Affordable Care Act comes a book that peers behind the curtain to see what healthcare reform really means to doctors, patients, and our country. Dr. Reece has gathered his writings into a readable and sometimes humorous compilation of fact, fiction, and anecdote that helps us to understand the turmoil our healthcare system will be experiencing over the next decade. His blog entries trace the evolution of the new law and what people say, think, and may do about its octopus-like reach.
In the midst of the confusion and haze of the Affordable Care Act comes a book that peers behind the curtain to see what healthcare reform really means to doctors, patients, and our country. Dr. Reece has gathered his writings into a readable and sometimes humorous compilation of fact, fiction, and anecdote that helps us to understand the turmoil our healthcare system will be experiencing over the next decade. His blog entries trace the evolution of the new law and what people say, think, and may do about its octopus-like reach.
I recommend
this book to anyone interested in their own healthcare and our evolving
healthcare system. Lou Goodman, PhD, CEO, Texas Medical Association Dr. Reece
sees America as a diverse, center-right, capitalistic country governed by a
constitutional balance among the executive, legislative, and court branches. He
shows that accountable care organizations, exchanges, and endless new federal
health insurance rules will certainly not bring about national healthcare
Nirvana, but asks, What will? Reece had it right in his 1988 book [And Who
Shall Care for the Sick?], and he dramatically demonstrates it in this new
book. This struggle is mainly between the management of corporations and
physicians. It is a struggle for power. The struggle of 1988, however, has
moved out of corporate offices and into Congressional lobbies and the Oval
office. The government s healthcare plan is to be administered by remote
bureaucrats that will never be able to gauge the hopes, feelings, and
consequences of their remote judgments when a patient and a doctor meet in the
exam room to decide what is best for the patient. Ergo, politics cannot heal
what ails us, but it can most certainly make it far worse. With this book,
Reece has brought focus to the 2011 and 2012 health reform debate. I expect his
yet unwritten sequel to be released soon after the 2012 election, and hope it
reports on the political movement back toward marketbased reform and away from
government-demand systems. Dave Racer, St. Paul, Minnesota, a supporter of
health savings accounts This book is an interesting patchwork of individual
thoughts on healthcare reform highlighting some of the best and noting some of
the worst ideas that have been presented in the last few years on what is
right, wrong, and needed in order for our healthcare system to advance. Matthew
Katz, Executive Director, Connecticut State Medical Society This is a must read
collection of essays that gives the good, the bad, and the ugly of the new
healthcare law, PPACA. Dr. Reece shares a balanced presentation of proponents
and opponents of the law and gives hope for a better way to reform the system.
Donald J. Palmisano, MD, JD, FACS, Former president of American Medical
Association, and author of On Leadership An eagle-eyed observer of the
healthcare scene, Dr. Reece offers up the messy banquet of health reform in
chewy but digestible bites. There is plenty here for healthcare professionals
and policy wonks to sink their teeth into, but Dr. Reece s clear, punchy style
also invites the general reader to the table. Anyone looking for an engaging,
even-handed (but hardly unopinionated) examination of healthcare reform is
encouraged to sample this very tasty new book. Phillip Miller, Vice-President,
Merritt Hawkins, and Author of Will the Last Physician in America Please Turn
Off the Lights? --Book Reviewers
Dr. Reece, in his book The Health Reform Maze: A Blueprint for Physician Practices, writes about a complex topic in a straightforward manner that grabs your attention. Throughout the book, various perspectives and facts are presented that clearly show the pros and cons of healthcare reform initiatives; particularly how physicians, patients, and America are being affected now, and will be in the future. His use of humor and thought-provoking quotes applied toward today s issues keeps the reader looking forward to the next chapter. If you like a book that takes a commonsensical view of a subject, you will enjoy reading this one. Mike Martin, President, Practice Support Resources, Inc. This is a book that is of value to all the players doctors, insurers, health planners and government administrators of health care and finance, as well as hospital leaders, legislators and the patient/consumer.
Dr. Reece, in his book The Health Reform Maze: A Blueprint for Physician Practices, writes about a complex topic in a straightforward manner that grabs your attention. Throughout the book, various perspectives and facts are presented that clearly show the pros and cons of healthcare reform initiatives; particularly how physicians, patients, and America are being affected now, and will be in the future. His use of humor and thought-provoking quotes applied toward today s issues keeps the reader looking forward to the next chapter. If you like a book that takes a commonsensical view of a subject, you will enjoy reading this one. Mike Martin, President, Practice Support Resources, Inc. This is a book that is of value to all the players doctors, insurers, health planners and government administrators of health care and finance, as well as hospital leaders, legislators and the patient/consumer.
Dr. Reece, trained as a
pathologist, has been a writer of distinction for all of his professional life.
He was editor of the respected Minnesota Medicine for over twenty years, and in
recent years has written ten books examining the American healthcare system and
its effect on the sick and the well, the rich and the poor, the doctors and the
bureaucrats, the government and the people. This latest effort is his reading
of the impact of the Affordable Care Act since its passage, as derived from his
blogs entered on the web from March, 2010 to January 2011. The author believes
that reform of health care has been designed by a politically center-left
Congress and President, for a center-right more conservative nation.
He makes
it clear that what was needed was stepwise evolutionary change and what we have
with Obamacare is a revolution in the provision of and payment for healthcare
in the U.S. The appointed leader of the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services
(CMS), Dr. Donald Berwick, is, in the view of the author, committed to the
central control of healthcare policy rather than one likely to rely on market
forces. Since passage of the law, two camps have marshaled their forces those
on the left who argue that government must participate ( further) in the system
of healthcare, and those on the right who want less government, lower taxes,
less debt and preservation of the right of individuals to decide for
themselves.
The accusatory rhetoric heats up on both sides and Dr. Reece,
through his reading of the published media, the blogosphere, and interviews
with recognized thinkers and actors on the healthcare stage, delivers facts and
candid appraisal of the ongoing debate in plain language. Valid concerns are
expressed that the law as it stands will leave us short of doctors, thus short
of access for those gaining insurance coverage. The emphasis on Accountable
Care Organizations, and the efforts to diminish fee-for service payment systems
and bundle payments to doctors and hospitals are pushing amalgamation into
larger systems with doctors as salaried workers. These phenomena are dissected
and exposed in easily understandable language, sometimes with a touch of humor:
Don t launch vast projects with half-vast ideas. Dr. Reece s book is a lively,
practical and valuable contribution to today s ongoing discussion. H. David
Crombie, M.D. Editor, Connecticut Medicine, The Journal of the Connecticut
State Medical Society --Book Reviewers
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