The best healthcare books providing practical solutions come from authors who actually work and consult on every day problems that face patients, employers, insurers, and providers of care. Below is a list (Just starting) that come from REAL: EXPERTS, not academics or media journalists. Of course, you can always purchase my book "Understanding Healthcare Consumerism."
This is a developing list of books worth purchasing:
1. Author: Ralph Weber with Dave Racer
Bio: Senior Employee Benefit Consultant, Certified Financial Planner, Accredited Estate Planner, and Chartered Life Underwriter with extensive experience in ASO and international health benefits. Ralph designs healthcare and insurance products which remove third party payers from routine care, restore the doctor/patient relationship and restore the principles of insurance. His goals are to design financial products which enrich people's lives, improve their financial and physical health, and reduce their costs.
Title: "Rigged: How Insurance Ruined Healthcare"
2. Author: Lee Beecher with Dave Racer
Bio: Lee Beecher, MD, is a board certified psychiatrist, whose active practice spanned more than four decades.All through his 42 years of practice, Dr. Beecher maintained his strong conviction that the focus of medical care must always be the patient.
Title: "Passion for Patients"
In 2005, and until his retirement in 2014, he changed his business model from one of previous dependency on government and insurance company third party payments to a Direct Pay Independent Practice model. For ten years he received payments for all of his professional services directly from his patients.