Health care revolt
Subtitle: how to organize, build a health care system, and resuscitate democracy--all at the same time
By: Michael Fine ; foreword by Bernard Lown and Ariel Lown Lewiton
Contributors: Lown, B. (Bernard), author of foreword; Lewiton, Ariel Lown, author of foreword
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781629635811
Subjects: Medical care; Social medicine
Description: "Today’s deliberations about a revamped health care system are stuck—in need of fresh analysis and a new vision. Health Care Revolt sets out to provide just that and at a most propitious time in U.S. history. Dr. Michael Fine’s manifesto frames the questions more expansively than others before him and offers an impassioned road map for a nation confused about which health care direction to travel. The crux of Dr. Fine’s argument is that the U.S. has put the fate of its health care in the so-called marketplace, where the few profit from the public’s ill health and accelerate the erosion of democracy in the process. Health Care Revolt looks around the world for examples of health care systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a revolution to protect health and strengthen democracy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: What are we doing wrong?; title: We have a market, not a health care system; title: What matters for health; title: So what's up with Obamacare? Did it matter?; title: Embers and spark: a tale of two or three cities, a couple of states, two or three countires, and a rural place or two; title: What our health care system could and should look like if we want this democracy to hold; title: How can we get from here to there? How to create a political revolution in health; title: Why clinicians must revolt; title: Health care and democracy.