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272 pages, Hardcover
First published March 22, 2022
Addressing the torments that send people to me weary and sick requires that America rearrange its allegiance to systems that subvert our inherent human value and absorb our bodies as inputs to a production function. If we accept that health is a human right, then we have a duty to ensure everyone has similar opportunity to flourish and can obtain necessary prevention, maintenance, and cure.
Each in its own way, our peer countries are committed to health-care systems that provide essential services to the entire population ... We too need a new arrangement, one that ceases the resource transfer from those at the bottom of society to those at the top, one that dismantles the separate tiers of our health-care system, one that invests in public health alongside innovation and treats everyone with the humanity we deserve.And from the author's concluding paragraph:
...Fixing it and building a healthy population requires a revolution in the way we view humanity, clarity in the trade-offs we're making, and honesty in the costs embedded in seemingly neutral decisions. In the process we must face the damage we've accepted in the name of profit, elevate moral leadership, reconcile conflicting truths with honorable new systems--and protect the lives of my worthy and beautiful patients who seem doomed from the start. Only then can we follow steps toward better health and a better health-care system for America, one that is just and true.