PHILOSOPHY,
ETHICS AND METHODOLOGY OF
PRIVATE HEALTHCARE
Bayer
Institute for Healthcare
Communication – www.bayerinstitute.org
Nonprofit
institute devoted to improving
communication between clinician
and patient through education,
research and advocacy. Contains
a wealth of information,
books and videos. Sponsors
numerous workshops.
Picker/Commonwealth
Program on Healthcare Quality
and Managed Care – www.cmwf.org
Harvard
University School of Public
Health Program studying patient-centered
measures of quality and organizational
features of plans leading
to better performance. Studies
Medicaid and Medicare quality
issues without the single
payor bias of other Harvard
programs.
Through
the Patient’s
Eyes, Margaret Gerteis et
al. Published
by the Picker/Commonwealth
Program for Patient-Centered
care. Extremely
useful in defining the
philosophy of patient-centered
private healthcare and
methodology applicable
to larger organizations.
Patient-Centered
Medicine: Transforming
the Clinical Method.
Moira Stewart et al. Published
by Bayer Institute. A
model for health practitioners
to use in expanding and
strengthening relationships
with patients.
Health
Behavior Change: A Guide
for Practitioners,
Stephen Rollnick et al. Motivational
interviewing and methods
for altering unhealthy
behaviors.
Communicating
With Your Patients: Skills
for Building Rapport, Christine A. Hinz. Published
by Bayer Institute. Improving
communication skills to
improve medical care.
ADDITIONAL
RESOURCES
Consumer
Choice Matters – www.galen.org
Healthpolicy
Matters – www.galen.org
Health
Care News – www.heartland.org
News
Alert – www.forhealthfreedom.org
Health
Affairs – www.healthaffairs.org
Insider
Report – www.cchconline.org
Health
Freedom Watch – www.forhealthfreedom.org
Heartland
Institute – www.heartland.org
Studies
free market solutions in
healthcare, education, the
environment. Very
rich source of information
on most healthcare policy
issues.
Galen
Institute – www.galen.org
Not
for profit, free market research
organization devoted exclusively
to health policy. Good
source of information about
consumer-driven healthcare.
Independence Institute/Healthcare Policy Center
Nonprofit,
nonpartisan, public policy
research organization where
Linda
Gorman heads the Healthcare Policy Center. Very
insightful and thorough research
on healthcare policy issues.
Association
of American Physicians
and Surgeons www.aapsonline.org Nonpartisan,
professional association
of physicians in all specialties
since 1943.
National Center for
Policy Analysis – www.ncpa.org
Founded
by John C. Goodman, M.D. to
study innovative private-sector
solutions to public policy
problems. John
Goodman is author of the
book Patient
Power,
a powerful short book widely
published as “the
free enterprise alternative
to Clinton’s
healthplan”.
CATO
Institute – www.cato.org
Nonprofit
public policy research foundation
of Libertarian orientation,
promoting individual liberty,
limited government, free
markets and peace. Sponsors
large events in Washington D.C. and
publishes widely on numerous
topics, including healthcare.
The
Heritage Foundation – www.heritage.org
A
think tank which promotes
conservative public policies
based on free enterprise,
limited government, individual
freedom, traditional American
values. Sponsors
large meetings and publishes
broadly on all areas of national
concern, including healthcare.
Center
for Studying Health System
Change – www.hschange.org
Nonpartisan
policy research organization
which conducts surveys and
provides information on managed
care issues.
Citizens’ Council
on Healthcare – www.cchconline.org
Twila
Brase, R.N. and her efforts
in Minnesota and
nationally to promote private
healthcare alternatives to
managed care and government
programs.
Council
for Affordable Health Insurance – www.cahionline.org
An
advocacy association of insurance
carriers concerned with the
individual, small group,
MSA and senior markets.
Institute
for Health Freedom – www.forhealthfreedom.org
Nonprofit
research and education center
dealing primarily with healthcare
privacy issues and free choice
alternatives to managed care
and government programs.
Center
for Health Transformation – www.healthtransformation.net
Newt
Gingrich and his effort to
radically reform Medicare
and Medicaid via the addition
of private healthcare options.
The
Fraser Institute – www.fraserinstitute.ca
An
independent public policy
organization in Canada seeking
competitive market solutions
for public policy problems. Publishes
an annual report “How
Good is Canadian Healthcare?” and “Waiting
Your Turn: Hospital Waiting
Lists in Canada”.
Patient
Power,
John C. Goodman and Gerald
L. Musgrave
The
definitive response to the Clinton health
plan. The
most informative 134 pages
you will ever read on our
current healthcare problems. Available
through Cato Institute.
Medicare’s
Midlife Crisis, Sue A. Blevins.
The
best written modern history
of Medicare’s
evolution and current problems. Available
through Cato Institute.
What
Has Government Done to
Our Healthcare?, Terree P. Wasley.
A
scholarly report on decades
of government legislation
which has created the current
American healthcare system. Available
through CATO Institute.
Empowering
Healthcare Consumers
Through Tax Reform,
edited by Grace-Marie Arnette.
A
broad ranging discussion
from the Health Policy Consensus
Group on different approaches
to reform and their benefits
and disadvantages. Published
by the Galen Institute from
a conference in 1996.
Code
Blue: Reviving Canada’s
Healthcare System, David Gratzer, M.D.
An
authoritative book written
by a Canadian medical student
and physician. Contrasts
the problems of the American
and Canadian systems. Many
examples of the breakdown
in Canada’s
Medicare.
Oxymorons:
The Myth of a US Healthcare
System,
J.D. Kleinke.
Author
and consultant who formerly
espoused HMO/Managed care
writes about changing the
tax codes, simplifying insurance
regulations and providing
free choice healthcare coverage
like the federal employees
health benefit plan.
Saving
Lives and Saving Money,
Newt Gingrich.
The
former speaker’s
new book on changing Medicare,
Medicaid and our healthcare
system. Tilts
heavily toward corporate
sponsors and members of his
Center for Health Transformation. |
