Health Security America: about the book

Fred Bannister, M.D.
2374 1½ Avenue
Chetek, WI 54728
715.237.2597

fredb@healthsecurityamerica.com

Edition: Paperback

Pages: 5 3/8 x 8 3/8, 119 pages

ISBN: 0-9779128-0-9

Publisher: Lundquist Hills Publishing Company

Release Date: April 2006

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About the book

"We hold the uninsured hostage to a usual and customary fee schedule, and it amounts to incredible discrimination. Why would two people having identical procedures pay a radically different fee? In some cases 500 percent more than the other must pay. This kind of selective soaking is common, yet we do not blink an eye."

Health Security America, Chapter 8

Large clinics steal 34-40% of the revenue of small two-physician clinics and call it "essential administration." Those same clinic CEOs draw huge salaries and perquisites from the business at the same time that 46 million people—including children—can not afford to cross their clinic's threshhold. Citizens we can stop that dead in the water. Together, we can make the system work for us, with Health Security America.

Fred Bannister, M.D., author

Overview

Health Security America is the definitive handbook for understanding what happened to health care in America and what we can do right now to avert the trainwreck. For over 40 years, Dr. Fred Bannister, the author, has been intimately involved in family practice, large clinic management,and HMO administration. Bannister saw what happened to doctors, their patients, and medicine in general as managed care stifled and sickened the health care distribution system, and he has the prescription to restore it to health.

In this book, Dr. Bannister explains what the practice and funding of medicine used to be like, and then what happened to send prices out of the reach of 46 million Americans. After two decades in an unhappy union with managed care in a large clinic setting, Bannister set out on his own and tried an experiment—he returned to a housecall practice and shut out the administrative middleman, to the mutual benefit of doctor, patient, and coverage provider. In Health Security America, Bannister outlines in detail how ordinary American citizens can effectively cut out the middlemen and take back control of their own health care.

Bannister's years of work in solo, group and large clinic practices, with boards of directors, hospitals and within the extended reach of the Mayo Clinic have been distilled into an indispensable guide to bringing about an America where everyone can afford health insurance, and where no child will ever go without it.

Health Security America: Fixing the health care crisis is the antidote to the last forty years of corporate greed and the administrative clutch on health care dollars in the United States.

Read it, take action—and help take back your health care.

Together we can do it.

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Health Security America is the remedy.