Hypochondria What's Behind The Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America
Hypochondria What's Behind The Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America

Hypochondria What's Behind The Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America

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Hypochondria is a beacon for change that unravels the commercialization of healthcare, dissects Big Pharma’s role in America’s pill-popping culture, and proposes alternative, disruptive solutions.

Hal Rosenbluth, the forward-thinking executive behind Take Care Health Systems, former president of Walgreens’ Health and Wellness division, and now chairman and CEO of New Ocean Health Solutions, offers an unflinchingly candid look at his 227 medical claims in just two years—highlighting the fact that illness anxiety increases the health system costs that are borne by all healthcare consumers in their insurance premiums, co-pays, and deductibles.

Hypochondria: What’s Behind the Hidden Costs of Healthcare in America is a bold exploration and a call to action to address the broader impact that each stakeholder — health plans, providers, health systems, and big pharma – has on the nation’s overstressed healthcare system. Marnie Hall’s contribution to this captivating narrative ensures that readers will embark on an unforgettable journey grounded in the meticulous research of a complex subject befitting her career as a journalist and television producer.

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    Judith S. Beck, PhD is President of the non-profit Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Clinical Professor Of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania.Judith S. Beck, PhD

    “When I read the manuscript for this book, I was so enthusiastic about it that I asked if I could write this Foreword. I was immediately captivated by Hal Rosenbluth’s saga (which is threaded throughout the book) of his struggles with hypochondria, or Illness Anxiety Disorder as it is now called… Marnie Hall, who works with Hal, explains how people develop Illness Anxiety Disorder (IAD)—and how research shows that their brains operate a little differently from others’ when they perceive a threat. Marnie also uses IAD to put a spotlight on what’s right and what’s wrong about healthcare in America, and telehealth.”

    Judith S. Beck, PhD is President of the non-profit Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Clinical Professor Of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania. Her book Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond, 3rd edition (2020) has been published in over 20 countries.

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    “Hypochondria lays out the case for what we all know is really true: we have Star Wars technology in a Fred Flintstone healthcare delivery system. Rosenbluth and Hall appropriately spare none of us — pharma, health systems, payers, patients — as it relates to our role in a broken, fragmented, expensive, and inequitable U.S. health system. With the emergence of GLP-1s, new imaging techniques, AI, and biosensors, reading and maybe re-reading Hypochondria is a must for anyone within the health system ecosystem (all of us). Hopefully this book will be a wake-up call for healthcare transformation and (dare I say it) disruption!”
    —Stephen K. Klasko
    MD, MBA, venture capitalist, entrepreneur; former president and CEO, Thomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health; Dean and CEO, USF Health

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    Dan Hesse

    “In Hypochondria, aided by his coauthor, Marnie Hall, highly successful travel and healthcare executive Hal Rosenbluth opens up about his own hypochondria and offers helpful insights into how America’s health system can improve by utilizing emerging technologies like telehealth (turbocharged by AI), which will increase accessibility and effectiveness, especially for those who struggle with illness anxiety.”
    —Dan Hesse
    Chairman, Akamai; former CEO, Sprint