“In the United States, uncoordinated care, poor communication and the related cascade of unintended consequences probably occur closer to 1 million times a day.
”And if any of these patients were treated more proactively with any consistency, imagine how many people would be put out of work overnight. The economy might grind to a halt.”
Mr. Shrinkman writes: “Few ordinary patients–the true bearers of change in healthcare policy–appear in this book, and virtually all of them came from the Time article {that Mr Brill wrote that was the basis of his book}. Mr. Shrinkman suggests that Mr. Brill is full of the hubris and social isolation of the “1 Percent” — as the gap between the very rich and everyone else widens.
