Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical
expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000.
And yet, according to the World Health Organization, our healthcare
system, in terms of total quality, ranks thirty-eighth in the
world, right between Costa Rica and Slovenia. Not only do 40
million Americans lack health insurance, but more than 200,000 die
each year because of medical mistakes. Our average life expectancy
is lower than Cuba's.
In Next Medicine, Dr. Walter Bortz zeroes in on why the American
medicine is spiraling toward disaster. A physician with fifty years
of experience and a leading authority on aging, Bortz argues that
the financial interests of biotech and drug companies have
distorted the healthcare system. Thanks to them, medicine today is
economically motivated to treat disease rather than to prevent it.
Heart disease, for example, is widely treated with drug
interventions and invasive surgery--both of which are extravagantly
profitable for pharmaceutical giants and hospitals. Daily exercise
and a healthy diet, on the other hand, can prevent heart disease,
and can be obtained by patients essentially for free--but there's
no money in that. The medical-industrial complex has a vested
interest in keeping us sick, and until that changes medicine will
fail to effectively address the leading cause of disability and
mortality today: chronic diseases like diabetes that are largely
preventable. Bortz proposes a medical system that emphasizes
personal responsibility and provides incentives for healthy
lifestyle choices, along with new training for medical
professionals.
Through a lively narrative full of personal anecdotes and jarring
statistics, Bortz makes a powerful case for a radically new medical
system--one that is based on rigorous science and loosens the
strangle hold of corporate interests on American health.
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