Highly Recommended: . . . a concise, up-to-date, rigorously referenced analysis of 20 of the most troublesome "myths" that continue to misguide the American public’s views about health care. . . this text can be helpful to undergraduate and graduate students, health care policy scholars, and anyone who still believes that health care in the US is the best in the world.

Choice Reviews

Exposing The Twenty Medical Myths is the most important book on American healthcare yet. It is focused, clear, organized, cogent, helpful and fair to all. It is carefully written at a lowest common denominator level, with no five dollar words, no hyphenated Latin and no attempt to hide the diagnosis from the patient. . . . Exposing The Twenty Medical Myths is a remarkable achievement. In just 210 pages, it captures the essence of the situation and explains it rationally and fairly, backed by facts, figures and direct experience managing the system. It is a sane analysis of an insane nonsystem where the quality of patients’ healthcare varies directly with the quality of their jobs. This is unique in the world and in no way desirable, fair or workable, but the edifice is so huge and convoluted, it pretty much has to continue. Insurers want to profit, government wants out, and patients are caught in the middle, paying more than 30% of their income for coverage at average figures. It’s all just wrong, and the stats show it definitely isn’t working. But now you will at least know why.

San Francisco Review of Books

Exposing the Twenty Medical Myths is an exceptionally informative account of the hugely complex and expensive American health care system. Tim Garson, MD, a national physician leader with vast expertise on health policy and a passionate commitment to making health care better for Americans, and Ryan Holeywell have written a fact-filled and thought-provoking book with important insights into American health care and various policy prescriptions for reform. Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt, a listened-to voice on health policy in America and a long-time friend of Dr. Garson, would have applauded both their honorable intent for writing the book and the book itself.

May Tsung-Mei Cheng, LLB, MA, Research Health Policy Analyst at Princeton University, Advisor to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence International of the United Kingdom, Advisor to the China National Health Development Research Center (C

It is time for all Americans to help fix our health care and this book is a perfect place to start. It is written for the general public, but it contains plenty of new information and fresh ideas for those of us who have spent our working lives in the health care world. And it succeeds in being non-partisan, a real feat in today’s polarized world. Garson’s easy style makes even the deepest concepts readily accessible. Understanding these “myths” is well worth your time and attention.

Donald M. Berwick, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

The best new book that Illuminates the strengths and weaknesses of the entire health care system is Exposing the 20 Medical Myths. It is clearly written FOR the public so the reader can not only understand the current system but it provides a unique lens to view the huge challenges just over the horizon.

Raymond C. Scheppach, Former Executive Director National Governors Association, Project Director for the State Health Care Cost Containment Commission, Professor of Public Policy, University of Virginia

I initiated a program at the Texas Department of Insurance to use plain language so that insurance would be easier to understand. Dr. Garson writes with the same goal in mind for healthcare. He’s a healthcare thought-leader who breaks down complex issues in a way that’s understandable and thought-provoking.

Kent C. Sullivan, Commissioner, Texas Department of Insurance, former justice on the Texas Court of Appeals