Physician Proposes Solution to America's Failed Health Care System
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June 23, 2003
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CHAMBERSBURG, PA, JUNE 20, 2003� In Health Care Meltdown: Confronting Our Myths and Fixing Our Failing System, Dr. Bob LeBow debunks the myths that sustain our current health care morass. LeBow shows how a publicly funded, privately administered National Health Insurance system would do the job better and for less.
�Lack of affordable health insurance is stripping people of their dignity,� says LeBow. �Tax credits, vouchers, federal grants, and subsidies fail. Americans have had enough. They deserve better. Health Care Meltdown proposes the economically viable solution to our nation�s universal crisis.�
Shortly after completing this book, Dr. LeBow was paralyzed in a cycling accident. His own dealings with the unconscionable obstacles the current health care system presents to injured and ill people brought the message home forcefully to his family, friends, and colleagues in the medical profession. After a year of rehabilitation, he has emerged with a stronger determination to educate Americans about the benefits of National Health Insurance.
A graduate of Harvard College and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Robert H. LeBow, M.D., MPH, has been the Medical Director of a community health center in Idaho for more than 25 years. He has devoted most of his career to addressing the problem of health care injustice in the United States. For two years he served as president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), the organization that advocates for National Health Insurance.
LeBow resides in Pennsylvania with his wife, Gail. Both are available for interviews.
Health Care Meltdown by Robert H. LeBow, M.D.; Hardcover, 6� x 9�, 304 pages; bibliography, glossary, index; ISBN: 0-911469-22-2 ; $25.00; Publication: July 2003
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