Free on Kindle July 17: A Durable Path Forward on American Health Care
On Friday, July 17, 2026, the Kindle edition of my book, A Durable Path Forward on American Health Care, will be available free on Amazon for one day.
Download it here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H89VPTF7
American health-care debates are usually presented as a choice between defending the current system and replacing it almost entirely with Medicare for All. This book argues that there is another path: a practical series of reforms that could expand coverage, reduce premiums, improve portability, and move the country closer to universal coverage without requiring the immediate destruction of the employer and private-insurance systems.
The book focuses on four major reforms:
Federal catastrophic reinsurance to reduce premiums and protect insurers against exceptionally expensive claims.
Portable, employee-owned health coverage that workers can keep when they change jobs.
Modernized health savings and flexible spending accounts that provide greater flexibility and reduce waste.
A more efficient role for Medicaid, particularly where it can provide better coverage at a lower cost than heavily subsidized private insurance.
Why the Book Is Worth Reading
The book’s strongest feature is that it does not treat health-care reform as an ideological contest in which one side must win everything and the other must lose everything. It examines how public programs, private coverage, employer contributions, reinsurance, and individual savings accounts can work together.
It also addresses one of the most neglected questions in health policy: how reforms interact. Reinsurance can lower premiums and federal subsidy costs. Portable employer contributions can reduce coverage losses when workers change jobs or become unemployed. Medicaid can sometimes cover lower-income families more efficiently than private plans. Savings-account reforms can give households greater control without expecting them to finance catastrophic medical bills on their own.
Readers will not agree with every proposal, but the book offers a serious framework for moving beyond the familiar stalemate between defending an inadequate status quo and promising a politically and economically disruptive transformation.
Please Help on July 17
Please download the Kindle edition while it is free on July 17, even if you do not expect to read it immediately.
After reading it, please consider:
Leaving an honest review on Amazon.
Recommending it to friends, colleagues, health-policy professionals, and elected officials.
Sharing the Amazon link through social media or email.
Sending me comments, disagreements, or suggestions for improving the proposals.
Free downloads can help introduce the book to a much wider audience. Reviews and recommendations are especially valuable because they help other readers decide whether the book deserves their attention.
Free on Kindle on July 17, 2026:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H89VPTF7
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