

The Long Fix
Solving America's Health Care Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone
Author: Vivian Lee
Narrator: Charles Constant
Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Kalorama
Published: 07/21/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Medical
Synopsis
Dr. Lee proposes turning the way we receive care completely inside out. When doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies are paid to keep people healthy, care improves and costs decrease. Lee shares inspiring examples of how this has been done, from physicians' practices that prioritize preventative care, to hospitals that adapt lessons from manufacturing plants to make them safer, to health care organizations that share online how much care costs and how well each physician is caring for patients.
Using clear and compelling language, Dr. Lee paints a picture that is both realistic and optimistic. It may not be a quick fix, but her concrete action plan for reform—for employers and other payers, patients, clinicians, and policy makers—can reinvent health care, and create a less costly, more efficient, and healthier system for all.