Goodreads asked Harry Nelson:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Harry Nelson After self-publishing From ObamaCare to TrumpCare: Why You Should Care in 2017, I got interest from several publishers about a sequel on the future of American healthcare. As I sat down in early 2018 to write that book, I realized that I could not think about anything other than the trainwreck of our national response to the opioid crisis. I'd been advising doctors on opioid prescribing for 17 years, and working with one addiction treatment program after another on suicide and overdose prevention, and I felt an urgency about getting a message out there about the work ahead. In March 2018, I gave a talk at the California Society of Healthcare Attorneys about how we needed to move from a reactive towards a proactive approach, with data showing the crisis worsening. Several attendees told me it was the most passionate and visionary message they had ever heard from a health lawyer, and they put me in touch with leading health policymakers in the federal government and several states. The more conversations I had at the highest levels, the more convinced I became that I needed to write a wake up call that started a different conversation.

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