Richard N. Fogoros, M.D.
Overhauling the Healthcare Machine paints a clear and compelling picture of what makes the American healthcare system is so uniquely dysfunctional, and (even more remarkably) lights the way to a healthcare solution that actually could work. If our policymakers would all read this book, our country would be much better off.”
Richard N. Fogoros, M.D., Cardiologist and author of Fixing American Healthcare: Wonkonians, Gekkonians and the Grand Unification Theory of Healthcare
Jim Grigsby, Ph.D.
Dr. Perednia’s dissection of the problems that undermine the American health care system turn conventional wisdom and political rhetoric on their heads. He illuminates a set of corrosive problems that are never discussed, but that are inherent in an administrative and bureaucratic infrastructure that pretends to ensure efficient, high quality care. Sociologist Max Weber wrote of the “iron cage” of bureaucracy, and Perednia has exposed how it has metastasized through the system, virtually guaranteeing the failure of legislative fixes that have been proposed or that are under consideration. If you don’t see the world as it really is, if you only view it through your prejudices and ideology, you can’t hope to change it in a positive way. This book gets us closer to a realistic view of the problems we face, and of the direction that we must take for meaningful change to become a reality.
Jim Grigsby, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, and Division of Geriatrics, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado Denver
Gov. Richard D. Lamm
Richard D. Lamm is currently a University Professor, Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Public Policy & Contemporary Issues. Gov. Lamm, who served three terms as Colorado Governor from 1975-1987, has always been in the forefront of political change.
