Is Your Health Care Killing You?Is Your Health Care Killing You? Colleen C. Badell Ph.D. Turning Point Press PO Box 4111, Napa, CA 94558-0411 0976112922 $12.95 1-707-259-1155 "Blind faith and blind trust Blind Trust A trust in which the executors have full discretion over the assets, and the trust beneficiaries have no knowledge of the holdings of the trust.Notes: Blind trusts are generally used when a trustor wishes to keep the beneficiary unaware of the specific assets in the trust, such as to avoid conflict of interest between the beneficiary and the investments. toward health care are luxuries we can no longer afford," writes Colleen Badell Ph. D., in Is Your Health Care Killing You?: 12 Ways to Survive Our Fractured Health Care System. A severe wake-up call to incompetence, mismanagement, excessive cost-cutting, and sometimes outright fraud rife within the health care industry, Is Your Health Care Killing You? describes at length how ordinary individuals can engage in preventive health self-care to improve one's lifestyle, the importance of requesting copies of records and reports, how to prepare for appointments, what to look for when being selective about health care providers, and much more. Appendices include state agency and licensing boards, consumer advocacy groups, and a list of professional associations and organizations. A highly readable, down-to-earth guide written by a medical industry insider especially for the public at the mercy of a powerful and all too often ruthless system.
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