Robert M. Kaplan’s More Than Medicine offers a genteel, scholarly presentation of the dumpster fire that is the American health care system, but he fails to place blame for it squarely where it belongs: the U.S. health care business model.

Published on: March 18, 2019

Joseph Q. Jarvis, M.D., MSPH is a public health physician with government experience at both state and federal levels, including service as Nevada State Health Officer, and prior appointments to the faculties of the schools of medicine in Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. He is the author of The Purple World: Healing the Harm in American Health Care.