The Corporate Transformation of Health Care
Can the Public Interest Still Be Served?
By John P. Geyman, M.D.
From the Preface:
The economic boom of the 1990s, though it served many health care corporations and their investors well, has not been kind to U.S. health care. With more than 43 million uninsured Americans, and tens of millions underinsured, the health care system is collapsing around us. Inflation of health care costs continues unabated, rendering health care increasingly unaffordable to a large and growing part of the population, currently estimated at about 50%. Yet we are being told by corporate interests and many politicians in both parties that incremental reforms of our market-based system will be effective if we just give them more time.
This book provides an up-to-date analysis of the failing medical marketplace and suggests an approach to urgently needed structural reform.
Springer Publishing Company:
http://www.springerpub.com/books/public_health/pub_2466_6.html
Comment: John Geyman’s book provided my “escape literature” this weekend during my air travel between California and the national PNHP conference in
Washington, DC. How could a book that so aptly describes our very expensive but highly wasteful system that fails to provide quality outcomes ever be considered escape literature? Simply because it provides hope. There will be affordable, high quality, comprehensive health care for everyone once we adopt single payer reform. Books such as this make it clear that a universal social insurance program is an absolute inevitability.
