Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy--All at the Same Time - Paperback

by Michael Fine (Author), Bernard Lown MD (Foreword by), Ariel Lown Lewiton (Foreword by)

The U.S. does not have a health system. Instead we have market for health-related goods and services, a market in which the few profit from the public's ill-health.

Health Care Revolt looks around the world for examples of health care systems that are effective and affordable, pictures such a system for the U.S., and creates a practical playbook for a political revolution in health care that will allow the nation to protect health while strengthening democracy.

Dr. Fine writes with the wisdom of a clinician, the savvy of a state public health commissioner, the precision of a scholar, and the energy and commitment of a community organizer.

Author Biography

Michael Fine, MD, is a writer, community organizer, physician, and senior health strategist Central Falls, RI and Blackstone Valley Community Health Care. Dr. Bernard Lown is professor emeritus of cardiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and the developer of the direct current defibrillator. He cofounded the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, an organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize. Ariel Lown Lewiton is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the National, VICE, the Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere.