Third World Health Care in a First World Country

by Valiere Alcena, M.D.

Overview

Many aspects of the U.S. health care system are worst than that of some third world countries. The U.S. health care insurance system is the most expensive health care system in the world and yet the most inefficient health care system of all the health care systems of all industrial countries in the world. The fact is that the U.S. health care system is controlled by HMOs and HMOs run the health care system with financial gain as their only motive.

The CEOs of the HMOs devise all sorts of business models that enable them and their shareholders to pocket the lion share of the 2.3 trillion dollars allocated yearly to pay for this inefficient and costly health care system. The fact is that HMOs have zero interest in quality patient care.

The drug companies must also share some of the blame for the problems afflicting the U.S. health care system because they make drugs that are so expensive that too many people cannot afford to pay for them. Fundamental changes are needed to make the U.S.
health care system more efficient.

It is time for people in the U.S. to demand change and for the government to say, “enough is enough” and devise new legislation to create a brand new health care system that provides health insurance coverage for all American citizens.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013478725
Publisher:	Outskirts Press, Inc.
Publication date:	11/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	223
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Valiere Alcena is a practicing physician, medical scholar, medical educator,
and author. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine, Bronx N.Y. and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, New York Medical
College, Valhalla N.Y.
On May 15, 2008, Dr. Alcena was inducted into the American College of
Physicians as MASTER-MACP in a ceremony held in Washington, D.C.
On October 19, 2010, Dr. Alcena became Fellow of the Royal Society of
Medicine in London, England (Royal Society of Medicine was founded in
1773).
Dr. Alcena is a TV Producer and TV Journalist. He is the producer and host of the award winning weekly TV program Discussing Problems and Issues of Health with Dr. Alcena (The longest running TV health show in the New Tri-State region - on the air since 1994)
He is also the producer and host of the weekly TV program: White Plains
Community Health Fair Speaks.
Dr. Alcena is the Chairman Emeritus of the White Plains Cable Access
Commission.
Dr. Alcena founded the Minority Students Af air Committee (MAC) at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 1969 and is still the Chairman of that Committee.
Dr. Alcena created Community Health Fairs in the State of New York.
He has published numerous articles in the scientific literature.
Dr. Alcena is credited as the physician who originated the idea that male circumcision would decrease the incidence of HIV/AIDS. This idea has prevented several million people from becoming infected with HIV/AIDS (6.3 million%u201D between%u201D 2006-2007). Close to 1 million deaths have also been prevented during that time because of male circumcision. Time Magazine named the idea of %u201CMale circumcision #1 among the Top 10 medical breakthroughs for the years 2007%u201D.
In 2007, Dr. Alcena was named ICM teacher of the year at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
The previous books that he has authored include:
1. The Status of Health of Blacks in the States of America- A Prescription for Improvement (1992)
2. The Third World Tropical Diet, Health Maintenance, and Medical Management Program (1992)
3. African American Health Book (1994)
4. AIDS the Expending Epidemic, What the Public Needs to know: A multi Cultural Overview (1994)
5. African American Women%u2019s Health Book (2001)
6. Women%u2019s Health and Wellness for the Millennium (2002)
7. Men%u2019s Health and Wellness for the New Millennium