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In The American Health Care Paradox, Bradley and Taylor illuminate how narrow definitions of health care, archaic divisions in the distribution of health and social services, and our allergy to government programs combine to create needless suffering in individual lives, even as health care spending continues to soar. They tell us how, and why, the US health care system developed as it did; examine the constraints on, and possibilities for, reform; and profile inspiring new initiatives from around the world.

Need help facing the constant barrage of information from competing life insurance companies? With thirty-five years of experience in the life insurance business, Tony Steuer delivers a practical, one-of-a-kind resource for anyone involved in choosing or monitoring a life insurance policy. This guide helps make a complex financial product understandable for consumers and is an essential reference, textbook, and training manual for financial advisors. Using a simple question-and-answer format, Steuer covers the essential basics and the finer points of life insurance.

Live Your Life Insurance shows you exactly how you can take advantage of one of the most common, but misunderstood, financial tools. In it, you'll discover exactly how you can use your life insurance to benefit you while you are alive - and help you build financial security. In addition, it will reveal ways to make the best of your policy no matter what age you are. Most people don't realize what a powerful tool they have in their life insurance policies - this book will be your guide

Unraveling the mysteries of insurance markets, Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Ray Fisman explore such issues as why insurers want to know so much about us and whether we should let them obtain this information; why insurance entrepreneurs often fail (and some tricks that may help them succeed); and whether we’d be better off with government-mandated health insurance instead of letting businesses, customers, and markets decide who gets coverage and at what price.

Extensively updated, the second edition of Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management examines the latest technologies, such as Riskonnect and High Tech Electronic Platform (HTEP), and helps listeners recognize both internal and external exposures, understand crucial concepts such as risk mapping and risk identification, and align risk opportunities with their organizations' business models.

A legendary CEO tells the inside story of building the world's largest insurance company - and the dramatic tale of its near-destruction after he left in early 2005, as successors transformed AIG and drove it to the center of the financial crisis of 2008.

The big question about this book is...is this a smart investment? It is, if you are an ambitious entrepreneur or intrapreneur looking for a real way to grow your business, develop teams, and scale your personal wealth! Maybe you have been struggling in your business or start-up. You have dedicated years or even decades to your insurance or financial advising practice, with the only growth being your impatience. Now, you are ready to elevate your life's work past the one-on-one client work and into the leadership of huge organizations that can add a few zeros to your net worth fast!

Few of us need convincing that the American health insurance system needs reform. But many of the existing proposals focus on expanding one relatively successful piece of the system or building in piecemeal additions. These proposals miss the point. As the Stanford health economist Liran Einav and the MIT economist and MacArthur Genius Amy Finkelstein argue, our health care system was never deliberately designed, but rather pieced together to deal with issues as they became politically relevant.

Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health-care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. Never Pay the First Bill is the guerilla guide to health care the American people and employers need. Drawing on 15 years of investigating the health-care industry, reporter Marshall Allen shows how companies and individuals have managed to force medical providers to play fair and shows how you can, too.

In the new world of instant decisions, we need to master the words and phrases to successfully move our potential clients to lifelong clients. Easy...when we can read their minds and service their needs immediately. Can we master these new words, phrases, and five questions quickly? Of course we can, and this audiobook shows us how.

Do you have trouble achieving consistent results in your life sales practice? Perhaps this book could help. I've put together in this book most of the process, systems, and techniques that have helped me in my career. Whether you are a seasoned veteran in the life industry or just starting your practice, this book might be what you've been looking for. Are you struggling with objections from prospects? Having trouble finding qualified prospects? Looking for a new strategy or plan of action? Do you have trouble explaining insurance in a simple matter of fact way?

Created for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for measuring and transferring credit risk, increasing risk-management transparency, and implementing an organization-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach.

In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital - one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year caused by medical error. The bill was enormous - and Medicare paid it. These circumstances left Goldhill angry and determined to understand how world-class technology and personnel could coexist with such carelessness - and how a business that failed so miserably could be paid in full.

How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country - such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"?

Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development.

In How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places, renowned ethical hacker FC delivers a gripping and often hilarious discussion of his work: testing the limits of physical bank security by trying to "steal" money, data, and anything else he can get his hands on. In the book, you'll explore the secretive world of physical assessments and follow FC as he breaks into banks and secure government locations to identify security flaws and loopholes.

What is the "Gap"? For financial professionals, it is the gap between their current income and their potential income - and it's profound. The fact is, most financial industry pros have a massive, untapped income potential. Most are "just getting by" when they could be living the life of their dreams. But how do they bridge the Gap in way best that serves both themselves and their clients? Jim Effner has the answer. If you're tired of staring into the Gap and ready to leap into the world of the top producer, buy this audiobook. Then hold on. It's going to be an exciting ride!

In The Long Fix, physician and health-care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts to the heart of the health-care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who's paying, it's what we are paying for. Insurers, employers, the government, and individuals pay for every procedure, prescription, and lab test, whether or not it makes us better - and that is both backward and dangerous.

Uwe Reinhardt was a towering figure and moral conscience of health care policy in the United States and beyond. Famously bipartisan, he advised presidents and Congress on health reform and originated central features of the Affordable Care Act. In Priced Out, Reinhardt offers an engaging and enlightening account of today's US health care system, explaining why it costs so much more and delivers so much less than the systems of every other advanced country, why this situation is morally indefensible, and how we might improve it.

Attract the right clients who will step up your sales game! In The Secret Art of Selling Insurance, award-winning educator and top sales producer Ana-Maria Figueredo helps you to level-up your sales game. Learn industry secrets, find the right insurance customers, and get the professional recognition you deserve!