Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System - Softcover

Dr. Bob Lebow has dedicated his entire life to practicing medicine, serving indigent patients, and fighting for single-payer health care. Before his cycling accident in the summer of 2002, Dr. LeBow was a family practitioner (including obstetrics) and was also board certified in general preventive medicine. Since 1972 he had been Medical Director of Terry-Reilly Health Centers, a group of community health centers in southwest Idaho that served a largely low-income, Hispanic population. He was the first man to cycle across Tibet; a Peace Corps physician in Bolivia, and has worked in over 20 countries worldwide, helping to develop primary care health systems. Dr. LeBow was one of the authors of Idaho's 1992 single-payer legislation, and has run for the Idaho state legislature three times. He is a prolific writer with frequent essays on the need for universal coverage. He currently resides in Philadelphia with his family where he is recovering from his life-changing injuries.

"As a family physician who spent more than 30 years serving low-income clients at a community medical clinic in Idaho and a former president of Physicians for a National Health Program, LeBow was shocked by the abuses and cruelty of America’s healthcare system....LeBow makes a strong case for an economically sound, comprehensive national health program that includes all of our citizens. His clarion call for change is a necessary acquisition for all libraries. Library Journal (starred review), June 15, 2003 "

"LeBow, a physician, offers a timely book for the present and future problems facing the health care system in the US. In the introduction, the author lays out the elaborate topic of the health care system’s inevitable meltdown"" and how the system came to the present point. Complete bibliography; glossary.The author certainly achieves his goal of making readers aware of the problems that health care will be facing in the next ten years. Recommended."" "" Choice, January 2004 "