Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust
Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

Health Justice Now
Single Payer and What Comes Next

Author: Timothy Faust

Narrator: Brian Holden

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2019


Synopsis

Single payer is the tool—health justice is the goal!

Single payer healthcare is not complicated: the government pays for all care for all people. It's cheaper than our current model, and most Americans (and their doctors) already want it. So what's the deal with our current healthcare system, and why don't we have something better?

In Health Justice Now, Timothy Faust explains what single payer is, why we don't yet have it, and how it can be won. He identifies the actors that have misled us for profit and political gain, dispels the myth that healthcare needs to be personally expensive, shows how we can smoothly transition to a new model, and reveals the slate of humane and progressive reforms that we can only achieve with single payer as the springboard.

In this impassioned playbook, Faust inspires us to believe in a world where we could leave our job without losing healthcare for ourselves and our kids; where affordable housing is healthcare; and where social justice links arm-in-arm with health justice for us all.

About Timothy Faust

Timothy Faust's writing has appeared in Splinter, Jacobin, and Vice, among other publications. He has worked as a data scientist in the healthcare industry, before which he enrolled people in ACA programs in Florida, Georgia, and Texas, where he saw both the shortcomings of the ACA and the consequences of the Medicaid gap firsthand. Since 2017, he's been driving around the United States in his 2002 Honda CR-V, talking to people about health inequity in their neighborhoods. He lives in Brooklyn.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Wick on February 07, 2022

Private insurance is a normalized scam. This polemic against private American insurance is unbalanced but totally justified in its subjectivity and indignation. Faust gives us a truncated yet accurate update of the current privatized system and then explores how that would look against a single payer......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on November 04, 2019

As a passionate proponent of Medicare for All, I’ve long been a fan of Tim Faust, a well-known leftist healthcare activist, and have learned a ton from him on Twitter over the years. In this book, he lays out his entire case for single-payer healthcare, starting from the premise that it is moral, it......more

Goodreads review by Josh on August 11, 2019

This is one of the best books I have read this year. If you've spent any considerable time in the disjointed, vicious, callous system that we know as the American health care system, as I have, some of what is outlined in this book will already be familiar to you: the bizarre ad-hoc means through whi......more