Fractured : America's broken health care system and what we must do to heal it
We Americans sense that our health care system is ailing. It has become too expensive and too uneven in its outcomes. This book explains why. Over the past three decades, I have looked at health care in more than 50 countries. What took me a professional lifetime to understand, I could have learned by reading this book. --Richard G. Roberts, MD, JD, FAAFP, FCLM, FRACGP (Hon), FRCGP (Hon), President, World Organization of Family Doctors and Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public HealthFractured captures and deftly explains the conundrum we are in as a nation because we fail to develop a health care delivery system built on a foundation of robust primary care and prevention. A must-read on the timely topic of health care that grips you with every page and leaves you with hope. --Paul Grundy, MD, MPH, Global Director of Healthcare Transformation for IBM and President of Patient-Centered Primary Care CollaborativeA riveting read and a wakeup call for anyone who does not understand the importance of investing in primary care as the answer to preventing illness, injury, and out-of-control costs for health care. --Calvin Gutkin, MD, CCFP, FCFP, Executive Director and CEO of The College of Family Physicians of Canada