The Cure That Works: How to Have the World's Best Healthcare -- at a Quarter of the Price
What’s the Most Important Fact About the Heathcare Crisis? That We Already Know the Cure! 

Whole Foods Markets, the State of Indiana, and innovators around the world have used forgotten American ideas to slash healthcare costs by 75 percent while simultaneously delivering true universal access, coverage for preexisting conditions, and an ironclad safety net. 

Economics for Dummies author Sean Flynn explains that simple things—like price tags, competition, and plentiful health savings contributions—crush costs while granting everyone equal access to the world’s best healthcare services.  
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The Cure That Works: How to Have the World's Best Healthcare -- at a Quarter of the Price
What’s the Most Important Fact About the Heathcare Crisis? That We Already Know the Cure! 

Whole Foods Markets, the State of Indiana, and innovators around the world have used forgotten American ideas to slash healthcare costs by 75 percent while simultaneously delivering true universal access, coverage for preexisting conditions, and an ironclad safety net. 

Economics for Dummies author Sean Flynn explains that simple things—like price tags, competition, and plentiful health savings contributions—crush costs while granting everyone equal access to the world’s best healthcare services.  
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The Cure That Works: How to Have the World's Best Healthcare -- at a Quarter of the Price

The Cure That Works: How to Have the World's Best Healthcare -- at a Quarter of the Price

by Sean Masaki Flynn Ph.D.
The Cure That Works: How to Have the World's Best Healthcare -- at a Quarter of the Price

The Cure That Works: How to Have the World's Best Healthcare -- at a Quarter of the Price

by Sean Masaki Flynn Ph.D.

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What’s the Most Important Fact About the Heathcare Crisis? That We Already Know the Cure! 

Whole Foods Markets, the State of Indiana, and innovators around the world have used forgotten American ideas to slash healthcare costs by 75 percent while simultaneously delivering true universal access, coverage for preexisting conditions, and an ironclad safety net. 

Economics for Dummies author Sean Flynn explains that simple things—like price tags, competition, and plentiful health savings contributions—crush costs while granting everyone equal access to the world’s best healthcare services.  

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781621579625
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication date: 06/18/2019
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Sean Flynn is an entrepreneur, economist, and educatuator dedicated to bringing affordable, high-quality healthcare to the United States. Born on Clark Air Force base in the Philippines, Flynn's father was a WWII combat veteran and his mother was a Japanese immigrant and student.  When Sean was four years old the family moved to California, whereh is mother won a U.S. Navy scholarship, attended medical school, and became Lieutenant Commander in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy.

Sean Flynn received his bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in economics at the University of Southern California and went on to receive his doctorate in economics at U.C. Berkeley, studying under Nobel Laureates George Akerlof and Daniel McFadden. He has since taught at Vassar College in New York and Scripps College in Claremont. 

Sean is the author of international bestseller Economics for Dummies and a co-author of one of the world’s bestselling economics textbooks.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 The Cabbie's Tale 1

Chapter 2 Singapore Past and Present 7

Chapter 3 Singapore's Healthcare Supremacy 19

Chapter 4 America's Healthcare Humiliation in an international Perspective 31

Chapter 5 What We Could Do If We Copied Singapore 37

Chapter 6 Why Is the US Healthcare System Doing So Badly? 41

Chapter 7 Provoking Profligacy with Low Out-of-Pocket Costs 49

Chapter 8 How "Single-Payer" Systems Spend Less Than We Do 57

Chapter 9 Empowering Prudence with First-Party Payments 65

Chapter 10 The Origins of America's Employment-Based Health Insurance System 73

Chapter 11 How to Engineer Low-Cost Health Insurance 79

Chapter 12 Visiting Singapore's Hospitals and Clinics 89

Chapter 13 MediSave and the Miraculous 3Ms 101

Chapter 14 MediShield and the Right Incentives 109

Chapter 15 MediShield Encourages Participation and Fairness with Age-Rated Insurance 119

Chapter 16 MediFund and Direct Subsidies: ' Singapore's Amazing Healthcare Safety Net 127

Chapter 17 Singapore's Multiple Ward Classes: Healthcare, Not Hotels 133

Chapter 18 Pharmaceuticals in Singapore 141

Chapter 19 The 3Ms Dominote Incentives, Not Payments 149

Chapter 20 Med I Shi eld Life and the Future of Singapore's Healthcare System 155

Chapter 21 The State of Indiana's Consumer-Driven Healthcare Plan 161

Chapter 22 RAND and Oregon; Slashing Spending without Hurting Health 173

Chapter 23 Why Healthcare Spending Can Decline without Hurting Health Outcomes 183

Chapter 24 P, Q, and Big Savings for You 193

Chapter 25 You Have to Fund People's HSAs for Them 205

Chapter 26 We Must Rescue the Poor from Medicaid 209

Chapter 27 Visiting the Free Market Medical Association 217

Chapter 28 My Proposal for Reforming the US Healthcare System 225

Chapter 29 Help Defeat the Special Interests 239

Appendix I Why Doesn't Anybody Know about Singapore's Healthcare System? 245

Appendix II Reductions in Government Healthcare Spending under Singapore's System of Healthcare Financing 249

Acknowledgments 253

Notes 257

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