Modern healthcare is often imagined as a high-tech environment where life and death decisions are made in operating rooms, intensive care units and emergency departments. These settings are undoubtedly critical. But in Fixing the Foundation,
America’s healthcare system is often described in terms of crisis: rising costs, uneven access, fragmented care and outcomes that lag behind other high-income nations. Policy debates typically orbit familiar targets: insurance coverage, reimbursement models, pharmaceutical
Book Description In Fixing the Foundation, Dr. Richard E. Cairl delivers a groundbreaking and urgent diagnosis of America’s most pressing crisis: a $4.9 trillion healthcare system that produces underwhelming outcomes, unsustainable costs, and a patient
