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    In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care by Scott W. Atlas, MD
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    In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care by Scott W. Atlas, MD
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    In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care by Scott W. Atlas, MD

    By Scott W. Atlas

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    The real facts on America's health care dilemma

    View Book Trailer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkeL8Ujnk-o.

    Medical care in the United States has been loudly and repeatedly derided as inferior in comparison to health care systems in much of the developed world and even in some relatively undeveloped nations. In Excellent Health offers an alternative view of the much maligned state of health care in America, challenging the statistics often cited as evidence that medical care in the United States is substandard and poor in value relative to that of other countries. Rather than relying on purely subjective judgments about equity and fairness, the book provides extensive, detailed evidence with which to answer the paramount question when considering quality of health care: "Where would you rather be when you are sick?"

    Drawing from research in scientific and medical journals, the author defends both the quality of and access to medical care in the United States compared to numerous countries with nationalized systems often held up as models for health system reforms. He then suggests a logical and complete reform plan designed to maintain choice and access to excellence and facilitate competition. His proposal offers a series of key improvements in the three critical areas of the health care puzzle—tax structure, private insurance markets, and government health insurance programs—that will reduce health costs and maintain essential support for America's most vulnerable citizens, seniors and low-income families, without jeopardizing the exceptional health care quality and access in the United States.

    Scott W. Atlas, MD, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of radiology and chief of neuroradiology at the Stanford University Medical Center, and senior fellow by courtesy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHoover Institution
    Release dateJan 3, 2012
    ISBN9780817914448
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    In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care by Scott W. Atlas, MD
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    Scott W. Atlas

    Scott W. Atlas, M.D. is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. Dr. Atlas investigates the impact of the government and the private sector on access, quality, and pricing in health care, global trends in health care innovation, and key economic issues related to the future of technology-based medical advances. He is a frequent policy advisor to policymakers and government officials in the United States and other countries. He has served as Senior Advisor for Health Care to several numerous candidates for president, as well as counseled members of the US Congress on health care, testified before Congress, and briefed directors of key federal agencies. From July to December, 2020, he served as a Special Advisor to President Trump and as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Before his appointment at the Hoover Institution, he was Professor and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center for fourteen years. He is the author of numerous books, including In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight On America’s Health Care, and most recently Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost. He is also the editor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine—the leading textbook in the field that has been translated into several languages, now in its 5th edition. His publications and interviews have appeared worldwide. Dr. Atlas has received many awards and accolades from leading institutions and societies all over the world in recognition of his leadership in policy and medicine. He was awarded the 2021 Freedom Leadership Award, Hillsdale College’s highest honor, “in recognition of his dedication to individual freedom and the free society.” He also received the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award, the highest career achievement honor for a distinguished alumnus from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. In the private sector, Atlas is a frequent advisor to start-up entrepreneurs and companies in life sciences and medical technology. He received his MD degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.

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