Understanding Healthcare

By Kenneth A. Fisher,

Book cover of Understanding Healthcare: A historical perspective

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Freedom in Health Care, by Kenneth A. Fisher, MD. Feb. 2016, 154 pages plus tables, reading list, and footnotes. (ISBN: 9780997151114)
Dr. Fisher provides the reader an in-depth understanding of how we got into this controversial, overly expensive, exceedingly complex and bureaucratic healthcare system and ends with a comprehensive solution…

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In my ongoing research into America’s dysfunctional healthcare system, Dr. Ken Fisher was a name I kept hearing. “Read his book,” said the MDs I trust. The roots of our current mess stretch back over one hundred years. Just after blood-letting was a thing. I didn’t know Otto Von Bismarck offered a nationalized healthcare plan for Germany. Though he failed, Prime Minister Lloyd George introduced the concept to England, and the NHS was born. Ken lays out the dominoes and how they fell into today’s American system. I learned how unleashing Health Savings Accounts enables a better system than the…

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