Falling Through the Safety Net : Americans Without Health Insurance

Geyman, John

ISBN 10: 1567512542 / ISBN 13: 9781567512540

Published by Common Courage Press, 2003

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Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling Through the Safety Net : Americans Without Health Insurance
• Publisher: Common Courage Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567512542
• ISBN 13: 9781567512540
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 0.882 pounds

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Synopsis

<div><p>In this stunning mixture of real life stories and cold-eyed analysis, Geyman brings you close up to the perils faced by every American. With nearly all Americans facing a lack of health insurance at some point, this is a book for you.</p><p>"Dr. John Geyman&#8217;s <i>Falling Through the Safety Net </i>provides a brilliant road map to this nation&#8217;s patchwork of medical coverage for the uninsured. As a practitioner, teacher, and medical leader, Geyman has learned his way around the safety net first hand. Powerful reading for all."&#8212;Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, author, <i>Big Doctoring in America: Profiles in Primary Care</i>.</p><p>"Once again, the legendary master of family medicine -addresses with clinical compassion the widespread concerns about "unsurance" and uncovered medical costs."&#8212;Donald Light, Professor of comparative health care -systems, Princeton University</p><p>To those who would take the Alfred E. Newman stance toward health insurance (What me worry, I&#8217;m healthy!), Geyman delivers some sobering statistics:</p><p>Eighty percent of the uninsured live in working families;<br></p><p>Sixty-seven million Americans are uninsured for at least one month in a twenty-eight month period;<br></p><p>One in five workers cannot afford insurance when offered by employers;<br></p><p>Even in families with two full-time wage earners, ten percent are uninsured.<br></p><p>Those who lack insurance face poor health care and increased risk of bad outcomes. The answer, argues Dr. Geyman, is one the majority of Americans already want: single payer health insurance.</p><p>This is the book for those who no longer want this problem to be as American as apple pie.</p><p><b>John Geyman</b>, M.D., is professor emeritus of Family -Medicine at the University of Washington, and editor of the <i>Journal of the American Board of Family Practice</i>.</p></div>

About the Author

<div>John Geyman is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, WA. He has spent 25 years in academic family medicine.</div>