Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System

by Robert H. LeBow

America's health care financing system is dangerously antiquated. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance companies, and the elite of the medical profession are doing their best to keep Americans clueless about the benefits of single-payer reform.

They have created a mythology to keep Americans misinformed, to maintain their profitability, and to keep health care reform from happening.

Genres: Nonfiction

277 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Ryan Lyppens · Rating 3 out of 5]

LeBow has a unique perspective from running a community health clinic protecting mostly the poor/uninsured, and you can see how passionate he is about helping those patients. Felt a bit more like a campaign/ad than a book at times, I wish he dove a bit more into specifics rather than leaning heavily into campaign rhetoric.

[Katie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I thought this book was going to be a helpful survey of where health care stands and how we might fix it. But half-way through, I got bored because it seemed like the author was basically just repeating points he'd already made. I felt like the author's opinions were being driven into my head; rather than being presented with evidence and given reasonable interpretations of the data, I almost felt harassed. Overall this book felt like a really really long advertisement for single-payer non-profit universal health care. There are some important points in there somewhere, but they're obscured by a lot of heavy rhetoric. And that got annoying.

[Sam · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are much more informative books about America's health care system.

[Beverly Norman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting to read the perspective of our healthcare crisis from a doctor's point of view.