Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System

ISBN 0-892944-14-6

Background

Fixing Our Broken Health Care System by Charles Scott is a book aptly described by its title. Subjects covered include health care cost drivers, medical malpractice, the tort liability system, the MICRA reforms, medical errors, unnecessary medical care, end of life care, radiation and the risks of medical radition, health insurance and health insurance reform, the Medicare and Medicaid programs and cost shifting from those programs, the role of government in the health care system, evidence-based medicine, the role of doctors and hospitals in rising health care costs, certificate of need (CON) programs, insurance mandates, prescription drugs, drug reimportation, nursing shortages, professional licensure, association health plans (AHPs), medical savings accounts (MSAs), health savings accounts, consumer-driven health care, the role of free enterprise and markets in health care reform, universal coverage reforms, single-payer systems, tobacco and the need for tobacco cessation, wellness, and personal responsibility for health status.

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About the Book

Health care is indisputably of vital importance to every man, woman and child. But from cost and accessibility to need and liability, massive problems plague almost every aspect of health care. The problems are very complex and any solutions must serve many masters. Charles Scott is a man with solutions. As a rancher-employer, long-term Wyoming Legislator and Chair of the Wyoming Senate Labor, Health and Social Services Committee, Scott has earned the inclusive perspective he uses to propose solutions to the major problems affecting health care today. Fixing Our Broken Health Care System is a balanced book that is sure to please and irritate anyone, any reader involved with delivery of medical or legal services. On the road to fixing our broken health care system, Scott's book is a must read!

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About the Author

Senator Charles Scott was first elected to the Wyoming Legislature in 1978 and has served ever since. He served four years in the House and moved to the Senate after the 1982 election. Since 1993 he has been chairman of the committee that is responsible for health legislation, The Committee on Labor, Health and Social Services. Before that he was chairman of a temporary Select Health Committee and the committee which is responsible for insurance legislation, the Committee on Corporations, Elections, and Political Subdivisions. He has sponsored 43 bills that have become law. From 2001 to 2004, Charles Scott served one year as Chair and two years as Vice Chair of the Health Committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures and currently serves on their Medicaid Task Force. He is a member of the steering committee of the Reforming States Group, a voluntary national association supported by the Milbank Foundation of state legislators and executives interested in health care issues. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the United States Cochrane Center. Charles Scott earns his living as President of the Bates Creek Cattle Company, a small business which provides health insurance for its employees. He and his wife Elaine, a retired physical therapist, live on the ranch near Casper, Wyoming with their son, daughter-in-law and new granddaughter. Scott is a graduate of Harvard College and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Before returning to the family ranch, he worked five years for the federal government in Washington, D.C., first for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and then the Environmental Protection Agency.

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