Doctor in the House: A Physician-Turned-Congressman Offers His Prescription for Scrapping Obamacare -- and Saving America's Medical System by Michael Burgess
This is a cool book about a TX doctor who decided to become a politician, not for the money, but out of a sense of civic duty. Michael Burgess provides a short autobiography and then a detailed critique of Obamacare from a doctor's perspective. Frankly, I'm surprised more people haven't consulted the doctors about all of this. After all, they will be affected the most.Burgess started out delivering babies. He practiced so long he started delivering the babies of women who he'd delivered 20+ years ago! But when the planes crashed into the WTC, Burgess felt a strong compulsion to run for office to help his country. Burgess fashioned his campaign around the slogan "Doctor in the House". When he got to Congress though, he began facing the political realities of D.C. Burgess decided to take his perspective directly to the people. The result? This book.
I've tried to keep the synopsis as stilted as possible. After all, book reviews are supposed to actually review the book - not give you a plot synopsis. My conclusion: every presidential candidate, congressman or senator voting on healthcare, doctor, and patient should read this book. Last time I checked, "patient" covers everybody. Because everybody should read this.
For the first time, I fully understood the "public option" and "single-payer" system. These terms are thrown around a lot, but you get the feeling that even the pundits don't know what they mean. While I appreciate the tea party and agree with them about repealing Obamacare, most of them don't fully understand the details of the current system or the proposed one. The current system is badly flawed but the proposed system is worse. Burgess details this in a simple, easy to understand book filled with technical terms. It's almost a "Healthcare Encyclopedia" written by a man with a unique perspective as a politician and a doctor.
As the foreword is by Newt Gingrich, it seems that the book has gained visibility. Let's hope it continues to do so.
Formatting is really weird. Can't fix it so sorry about that.
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