Gratzer makes the case that it's possible to reduce health expenses, insure millions more, and improve quality of care while not growing government or raising taxes. Weighing in on the most controversial topics in health care, Dr. The Cure offers a detailed overview of American health care, from economics and politics to medical science. Instead, he prescribes a strong dose of capitalism.

Gratzer mounts a bold and provocative argument, rejecting the conventional wisdom that socialized health care is compassionate and that top-down government agencies like the FDA actually save lives. David Gratzer goes to the heart of the problem, showing that the crisis in American health care stems largely from its addiction to outmoded and discredited economic ideas. Why is American health care such a mess? In this path-breaking book-Nobel laureate Milton Friedman calls it "e fascinating and thorough"e -Dr. Yet while American medicine has never been better, angst over American health care has never been greater. We are surrounded by medical miracles: polio has been eradicated childhood leukemia is now treatable death by cardiovascular disease has declined by two-thirds in the last fifty years.