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Title: Are we enabling a trajedy?
Review: As the medical director of a "safety net" community clinic I confront the trajedy that is our U.S. health care system on a daily basis. Bob LeBow's book succinctly captures the perversions and frustrations that have grown out of our free market approach to health care. Squeezing profits from the weak and vulnerable may be a way, but should not be the American way. Bob highlights the myths sponsored by the big money interests in the current system, and offers realistic solutions that appear entirely within our grasp. After reading Health Care Meltdown I am forced to reconsider what I do for a living. By serving as a safety net provider, by providing care for the poor and sick who are systematically excluded from our health care system, am I enabling our broken system to persist? Perhaps I should instead stand back and let the current system implode, hoping for a more just and equitable system to emerge from the ashes.
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