Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing our Ailing System

by Robert H. LeBow, C. Rocky White

Almost five years after the original publication of Dr. Lebow's authoritative dissection of America's health care "system", the situation has in many ways deteriorated. More Americans lack any health insurance, costs continue to increase faster than income, and increasing complexity is overwhelming everyone involved.
In revising this book, Dr. C. Rocky White has included recent developments in the field, and updated the relevant statistics. The bibliography has been expanded to include recently published articles, books and givernment documents. For the most part, however, Dr. LeBow's text has proved to be as timely now as it was upon initial publication in 2002.
With a presidential election coming in 2008, Health Care Meltdown, in its revised edition, will be an essential reference for citizens of all political persuasions. There is little doubt that the failures of America's health care "system" will be a major issue as political campaigns heat up.

Genres: Nonfiction

352 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.