Michael Fine ' s Health Care Revolt

Michael Fine, M.D., HealthCare Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and ResuscitateDemocracy – All at the Same Time (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2018). Dr. Michael Fine is a man on fire. He ’s on fire with anger about a healthcare marketplace that serves well to maximize the profits of investors and CEOs, but violates the values of many of those working in it. He’s on fire with enthusiasm about the potential of public health and prevention and about the value of integrated primary care. He’s on fire with determination to work to change our scattered health care marketplace into an actual health care system that could monitor and manage every citizen’s health. And he has concrete suggestions and a vision of how to work toward that end.And, from what ’s recounted here, Dr. Fine has an admirable practical record of implementing health care change on a local level in Rhode Island and in the Scituate area. In Scituate, in a poor rural area, he organizedthe non-profit Scituate Health Alliance and worked with residents and local officials to provide primary medical and dental care to all town residents. He envisions small local health care systems like his serving as a model that will show the feasibility of a better health system to both conservatives and liberals and eventually enable scaling up to a better national system. (This is quite reminiscent to me of how the greatNye Bevan, in the middle of the last century, successfully used the model of theTredega...
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