October 23 The America We Need Discussion Group

"The Long Fix: Solving America’s Healthcare Crisis with Strategies that Work for Everyone" with Dr. Vivian Lee

The American healthcare system, with its fee-for-service model, has serious defects. Not only do we pay more with worse results than any other industrialized nation, but the costs have contributed to our stagnant wages.The American healthcare system, with its fee-for-service model, has serious defects. Not only do we pay more with worse results than any other industrialized nation, but the costs have contributed to our stagnant wages.

Dr. Vivian Lee, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has written a new highly accessible book called The Long Fix: Solving America’s Healthcare crisis with Strategies that work for Everyone.

For this meeting please listen to an informative, provocative, recent interview with her. Click on the title from the NPR podcast Hidden Brain:

Slaying The 'Fee-for-Service Monster' Of American Healthcare

Dr. Vivian Lee, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, has written a new highly accessible book called The Long Fix: Solving America’s Healthcareas Dr. Lee discusses the psychological and  economic incentives embedded in the American model of medicine, and makes the case for a different way forward.