Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, health care was the most important policy issue for Americans. The coronavirus crisis has made health care all the more important to people in the United States.

As the 21^st Century rolls out, the existing government health care programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, are financially unsustainable. The critical decision for the country now is whether more government intervention or whether more patient control will provide better access and lower costs of medical care in the U.S.

All American have had some interaction with the health care delivery system. Yet because it seems so complex, most people do not understand how all the various parts work together. Countless books have been written about our health care policy – most of these written for analysts and elected officials.

I wrote my new book, Health Care Policy Simplified; Understanding a Complex Issue, for the average person who has no policy background. As a cardiac surgeon, part of my job was explaining a complicated operation in understandable terms. The book is written with the same goal in mind.

The book covers all of the important aspects of our health care delivery system, including historically how we arrived at this point. In very simple language, I cover the various government health care plans and agencies, the health care systems in other countries, and specific subjects including drug pricing, health insurance, and the distortion caused by third party payers. The book goes into detail on health care reforms that place the patient, not the government, in charge of medical decisions and financing.

With the upcoming election in November and the clear choice Americans must make on the future of our health care system, the information in this book is extremely timely, pertinent and necessary for those seeking to make informed decisions about health care policy.

If you would like me to speak to your organization via video conferencing about my new book and how the choices of today could decide the health care choices of their loved ones tomorrow, please email WPC's Communications Director, David Boze at dboze@washingtonpolicy.org and put SPEAKING REQUEST in the subject line.

Included in the book are chapters covering:

• Historic review of how the health care system developed in the United States;
• Understandable explanations of Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare;
• How health insurance developed and why it is different than other types of insurance;
• The complex issue of drug pricing;
• Mental health;
• Vaccines;
• Health care delivery systems in other countries and their relevancy to the U.S.;
• Is health care a right?;
• Details of patient-oriented health care reform.

Health Care Policy Simplified is available NOW on Amazon!