Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System

America's health care financing system is dangerously antiquated. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical industry, the insurance companies, and the elite of the medical profession are doing their best to keep Americans clueless about the benefits of single-payer reform.

They have created a mythology to keep Americans misinformed, to maintain their profitability, and to keep health care reform from happening.

Dr. Bob Lebow has dedicated his entire life to practicing medicine, serving indigent patients, and fighting for single-payer health care. Before his cycling accident in the summer of 2002, Dr. LeBow was a family practitioner (including obstetrics) and was also board certified in general preventive medicine. Since 1972 he had been Medical Director of Terry-Reilly Health Centers, a group of community health centers in southwest Idaho that served a largely low-income, Hispanic population. He was the first man to cycle across Tibet; a Peace Corps physician in Bolivia, and has worked in over 20 countries worldwide, helping to develop primary care health systems. Dr. LeBow was one of the authors of Idaho's 1992 single-payer legislation, and has run for the Idaho state legislature three times. He is a prolific writer with frequent essays on the need for universal coverage. He currently resides in Philadelphia with his family where he is recovering from his life-changing injuries.