America's Tunnel Vision - How Insurance Companies' Propaganda is Corrupting Medicine and Law [Paperback]

Michael Townes Watson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2006

The fabric of our nation’s healthcare is woven inside of a rigid framework that hides many facts from those of us who do not sit on ‘Capitol Hill’. Insurance companies have already stolen the healthcare system from the doctors. Now they are successfully corrupting the justice system. This book simply defines the myths created by insurance propaganda while the reader learns how to protect himself by placing himself on equal ground with the insurance companies. America’s Tunnel Vision brings to focus facts about healthcare consumer’s basic rights that are widely overlooked and ignored.

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About the Author

Michael Townes Watson is author of four law books and numerous articles on legal/medical issues. A former Adjunct Professor of Medical Malpractice Law; Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates; he has studied, taught and practiced in Law and Medicine for thirty years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Horatio Press; 1 edition (June 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0977620352
• ISBN-13: 978-0977620357
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,994,199 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Must" reading for all health care and medical reform activists, August 9, 2006

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This review is from: America's Tunnel Vision - How Insurance Companies' Propaganda is Corrupting Medicine and Law (Paperback)

One of the principle causes of death and injury in the United States today is the widespread reality of doctors who are too rushed to give proper attention to their patients. The haste is created by the pressure upon physicians by insurance companies control care decision, inadequate information about new drugs, a rigid healthcare framework, the insurance and pharmaceutical company financed corruption of the justice system from the congress to the courthouse. America's Tunnel Vision: How Insurance Companies' Propaganda Is Corrupting Medicine And Law by Michael Townes Watson (a former Adjunct Professor of Medical Malpractice law, a practitioner in Law and Medicine for more than thirty years, and the author of four law books and numerous articles on legal/medical issues) is a clarion call to make right what has gone wrong in the medical and judicial systems. In an era when hospital error kills more people than any form of cancer (except lung cancer), when you are five times ore likely to be injured in a hospital than when driving your car, when insurance companies think your life is worth less if you are hurt by a doctor than if you are hurt by a drunk driver, and when insurance companies have taken over the practice of medicine and are now in the active process of taking over the justice system, it's only men and women like Michael Watson and books like America's Tunnel Vision that can hope to awaken the general public to what is going on and to motivate them to corrective action. Simply stated, America's Tunnel Vision is "must" reading for all health care and medical reform activists, and needs to be placed in the Social Issues reference collections of every community and academic library in the country.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, May 23, 2006

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James Ellen "James" (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: America's Tunnel Vision - How Insurance Companies' Propaganda is Corrupting Medicine and Law (Paperback)

If you are a healthcare consumer you can't afford not to read this book. Author Michael Townes Watson uses actual accounts from real cases to inform the reader of injustices that are being carried out in what is described as a "stealth-like" fashion. The book sends a strong message that if we as a nation do not become more aware and informed; then more and more of us are going to be adversely affected by the lawmakers that are currently attempting to pass bills that prevent victims of medical malpractice from receiving the aid of the justice system. The book is equally entertaining as it is informative, containing facts about widely publicized cases and dispelling the myths about their outcomes. A book on this topic could have the potential to be extremely boring, but this one was anything but. Definitely recommend.