Troyen A. Brennan is an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. A former professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the former chief medical officer at CVS Health, he is the author of The Transformation of American Health Insurance: On the Path to Medicare for All and Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State.
Description
Foreword
1. The Somewhat Recent History of Primary Care
2. Are there Signs of a New Deal for Primary Care?
3. What Can the Federal Government Do to Promote Primary Care?
4. The States Role in Primary Care Reform
5. State-Based Health Insurers Role in Primary Care
6. The National Health Insurers (and Other Corporations)
7. The Role of Private Equity
8. The Future of Primary Care
Vivid, incisive, and urgent. This is essential reading on why American health care is failing—and how rebuilding primary care can fix it.
—Atul Gawande, MD, MPH, author of Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Brennans book is brilliant. He has full grasp of what makes primary care wonderful and how it is broken. He offers a clear and realistic vision of how primary care should evolve and even thrive—and the steps that key stakeholders should take to make that possible.
—Thomas H. Lee, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey
Brennan skillfully highlights the persistent tension between the well-established benefits of primary care—for both individuals and the broader health care system—and a system that too often hinders the realization of those benefits. He calls on us to move beyond these entrenched barriers and to build a health care system that truly places patients and primary care at its center.
—R. Shawn Martin, Executive Vice President/CEO, American Academy of Family Physicians
Wonderful and Broken is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand why our health system is so dysfunctional and what can be done to fix it. With data and compelling storytelling, Brennan illustrates how we are only limited by our willingness to spend resources differently in order to reduce overall health care costs while extending lives and improving health.
—Russell S. Phillips, MD, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Wonderful and Broken captures primary cares reality perfectly. As a practicing family physician, I recognize Dr. Brennans descriptions all too well. Im grateful for his nationwide exploration of primary care models, and I share his optimism that primary care can still be rediscovered to lift the US from the basement of health outcomes among developed nations.
—Robert L. Phillips Jr., MD, MSPH, American Board of Family Medicine