{"product_id":"beyondmedicare","title":"Beyond Medicare For All: Cracking the Code of the Healthcare Affordability Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. healthcare system is in crisis — and the familiar solutions aren't working. Single-payer advocates and free-market defenders have spent decades talking past each other while costs spiral, primary care collapses, and millions remain underinsured. In \u003ci\u003eBeyond Medicare For All: Cracking the Code of the Healthcare Affordability Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, veteran healthcare journalist Ken Terry offers something neither side has managed to deliver: a bold, practical, and politically workable path to universal, affordable care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on his groundbreaking 2020 book \u003ci\u003ePhysician-Led Healthcare Reform\u003c\/i\u003e, Terry introduces a new financing framework that doesn't require dismantling private insurance or expanding the federal government's role in delivering care. Instead, he proposes a layered model in which competing primary care groups take financial responsibility for basic care through a subscription model — while restructured health insurers cover hospital, post-acute, and higher-cost outpatient services. Employer and government subsidies ensure that no one is priced out of coverage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eWhat Makes This Model Different:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cb\u003ePrimary care reimagined:\u003c\/b\u003e At-risk basic care groups manage population health and control costs — rescuing a specialty on the verge of financial collapse.\n\n\u003cb\u003eGlobal hospital budgets:\u003c\/b\u003e Modeled on Maryland's proven approach, hospital budgeting creates strong incentives for cost discipline across health systems.\n\n\u003cb\u003eInsurance market reform:\u003c\/b\u003e Restructured coverage pools make insurer participation viable and profitable — without sacrificing consumer protections.\n\n\u003cb\u003eEmerging challenges addressed:\u003c\/b\u003e Health IT, rural healthcare, social determinants of health, and a novel proposal for slowing technology-driven cost growth round out the framework.\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by health policy expert David W. Johnson, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Medicare For All\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential resource for physician leaders, healthcare executives, policymakers, and engaged citizens who are ready to move past the debate — and start building a system that works.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AAPL Shopify","offers":[{"title":"ship","offer_id":46090632331401,"sku":"IR-BBEYOND-B-01","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0080\/5578\/3490\/files\/Beyond-Medicare.png?v=1777552821","url":"https:\/\/www.physicianleaders.org\/products\/beyondmedicare","provider":"AAPL Shopify","version":"1.0","type":"link"}