{"product_id":"9781567513967","title":"Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, and How We Must Replace It","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Geyman’s literary voice arises from his unusual professional and political trajectories: from country doctor to academic department chair and prominent journal editor, and from longtime Republican to president of Physicians for a National Health Program . . . a passionate advocate and scholar.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New England Journal of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The raging debate over how to pay for health insurance has missed a profoundly important fact: As big as it is, as tight of a grip it has on American life, the health insurance industry is dying,” states John Geyman, MD, in \u003ci\u003eDo Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry is Dying, and How We Must Replace It\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e    Written for lay readers, health care professionals, and policymakers alike, \u003ci\u003eDo Not Resuscitate\u003c\/i\u003e moves beyond books that decry our current problems to reveal what the trend for more than half a century of increasing costs and decreasing coverage really means. The situation for doctors, patients, caregivers, and even the insured will move from dysfunctional to a complete breakdown over the next decade. In one of many examples Geyman cites, as employers cut costs in a global economy, the cost of health insurance as a proportion of wages is rising to the point where it will consume all average household income by 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Geyman\u003c\/b\u003e is professor emeritus of family medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Corrosion of Medicine: Can the Profession Reclaim its Moral Legacy?\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFalling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eShredding the Social Contract: The Privatization of Medicare\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Courage Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300927226096,"sku":"9781567513967","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781567513967_p0.jpg?v=1763791648","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781567513967","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}