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Unraveling U.S. Health Care is a guidebook to the health care system that provides a timely and thorough explanation of U.S. health care, written in readable laymen’s terms. Roberta Winter educates and informs general readers about useful information that will empower their health care decision making. She makes sense of important health care issues, which are often filtered with political and financial stakeholder bias, confusing the health care consumer. Useful tips, explanatory charts, and statewide scorecards are included throughout to assist readers in choosing the best care they can receive. More than ever, patients must act as consumers of health care, balancing informed decisions with available resources. Keeping this in mind, Winter also explores other options available to patients, including seeking health care outside the United States, and provides a roadmap for medical tourists to the U.
About the Author
I am a nonfiction writer who lives twenty-five miles by sea, from Seattle and I am an avid cyclist, both road, sport, and commuting.
For the past twelve years I have focused on increasing the level of public engagement in understanding health care policy and resourcing within the United States. Before embarking on my publishing activities, I spent a substantial amount of time in the health insurance industry. Eventually I migrated to the clinical care side, working as a consultant for hospitals and other health care initiatives.
My motivation to write is to enhance democracy by informing citizens with unbiased information for health care resourcing.
