Health Care Will Not Reform Itself
A User's Guide to Refocusing and Reforming American Health
Care
George C. Halvorson
Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, California, USA
ISBN: 978-1-4398-1614-1, 2009, 184 pp.
"Students of health reform would do well to consider this book as an invaluable
text for our national public policy debate."
- Tom Daschle, Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
"This hard hitting and practical blueprint for reforming medicine will work if we
listen. I even took notes."
- Dr. Mehmet Oz, Vice Chair and Professor of Surgery, Columbia University; Oprah Radio
Written by the CEO of the largest healthcare provider in the nation, this book provides a basic primer on the
American health care system. Making use of insightful anecdotes and examples, Halvorson cuts through the
rhetoric to offer a blueprint for achieving real improvements in health care delivery. He explains how health
insurance works in the U.S. compared with the rest of the world and outlines the barriers to American reform.
