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Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, and How We Must Replace It
John Geyman, MD 

Softcover: 352 pages 
ISBN 1567513964
978-1567513967
Common Courage Press
July 2009
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Hardcover: 352 pages 
ISBN 1567513972
978-1567513974
Common Courage Press
June 2009
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Written for lay readers, health care professionals, and policymakers alike, Do Not Resuscitate moves beyond books that decry our current problems to reveal what the trend for more than half a century of increasing costs and decreasing coverage really means.

 

“Geyman’s literary voice arises from his unusual professional and political trajectories: from country doctor to academic department chair and prominent journal editor, and from longtime Republican to president of Physicians for a National Health Program... a passionate advocate and scholar.” —The New England Journal of Medicine

“The raging debate over how to pay for health insurance has missed a profoundly important fact: As big as it is, as tight of a grip it has on American life, the health insurance industry is dying,” states John Geyman, MD, in Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, and How We Must Replace It.
 

The situation for doctors, patients, caregivers, and even the insured will move from dysfunctional to a complete breakdown over the next decade.

 

In one of many examples Geyman cites, as employers cut costs in a global economy, the cost of health insurance as a proportion of wages is rising to the point where it will consume all average household income by 2025.

John Geyman is professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. He is the author of The Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral Legacy?, Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans without Health Insurance, and Shredding the Social Contract: Privatization of Medicare.

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