Over Our Heads

An Analogy on Healthcare, Good Intentions, and Unforeseen Consequences

By: Rulon Stacey, PhD, FACHE

Narrated by: Wayne Edwards

Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's summary

Over Our Heads, by Rulon Stacey, points to good intentions and government interference.

Costs continue to soar, and Americans already crippled by a sluggish economy struggle to pay escalating insurance premiums. Politicians, entertainers, and other public figures regularly demonize healthcare professionals as the ones who created this situation through either greed or mismanagement. Meanwhile, it seems as though government solutions just make things worse, and the problems keep piling up.

How did we get to this point? The roots of the problem are inseparable from the solution. Government intervention, meant to make healthcare more accessible and affordable, has instead created a system so convoluted and complex that we can no longer keep up with current policy.

This audiobook is Stacey's attempt to describe, in a concise and relatable way, where our national healthcare policy went wrong. His analogy centers on a grocery store in the fictional town of Capital Springs and details what happens when the city government decides to issue food vouchers in order to help the community s poor and then gradually begins to reduce their reimbursement.

As the mayor tinkers with the program, the results of his actions lead to higher prices, inadequate distribution, and a situation analogous to where healthcare finds itself right now. The book ends with the election of an even more generous mayor and a grim prediction of what will happen to the industry if current public policy remains unchanged.

This book will be welcomed by healthcare professionals searching for a way to tell their story, political reformers building a case for change, students seeking a defined case study on the healthcare cost crisis, and citizens seeking insights on how we got so far in over our heads and where we are likely to end up.

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This makes it easy for a layman to understand our health crisis in America

This book in story form walks you through step by step in how we have arrived in the state we are in today with healthcare. But does it in abstract by following a fictitious grocery store owner. You can see there are good intentions, but making decisions where the consequences were either unknown or more likely ignored. Masterfully done and a quick read.