Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next (Activist Citizens' Library)

Faust is an extremely charismatic writer whose stylistic wit and clearheadedness lend themselves in elucidating such a hideous, (intentionally) convoluted, subject: the state of American healthcare after decades of feckless, neoliberal ravage.Readable, entertaining, and more informative than any policy paper or spook-tank compendium you’ll find today.This book is great for those already supportive of Medicare-for-All on a morally instinctual level, since it clearly outlines out all the ins and outs of the current system, which you need to know if your argument for single-payer is on a strictly policy level.But it’s even better for the skeptics and the libs, whose heads are so clouded by these political sleight-of-hand tricks, that they fail to see the fundamental, moral obscenity of a system that determines whether one’s even DESERVING of the right to a healthy life, based on how much money they’re willing to sacrifice for it.

Tim Faust is the perfect person to explain the ongoing healthcare crisis in America. His writing is straightforward and honest, but most importantly comes from experience. Yes, his claims are researched and cited, but what is truly striking in this book are the real-world examples - the real people - who are experiencing the collateral damage of this crisis every day. Tim has been there, he's met these people, and in this book he's created a concise and thorough rationale as to why single payer healthcare is the only humane and civil option, and what the future could look like if we make the right choices. A book that's tragic and beautifully optimistic simultaneously, I would recommend this to anyone at all.

Wonderful overview of our current healthcare situation. Explores the Big Picture - how healthcare relates to housing, nutrition, education and other socioeconomic factors - and explains why a single-payer system might be exactly what we need to alleviate the suffering of millions. Very well-written and researched; filled with personal stories that will touch your heart. Inspiring and thought-provoking. An excellent book.

Well-written, impeccably researched— Timothy Faust makes the case for single payer in a way no rational human can deny. Equal parts tragic and uplifting, this book is a triumph of health policy writing. Buy it today— from your local independent bookstore!

I had to read this book in small doses, mainly because I didn't want to be angry for long stretches at a time. The author is clearly qualified to speak on the matter and does a tremendous job backing up each point with LOADS of data. Recently reading this book, combined with a certain democratic candidate dropping out, has really made my opinion of the immediate future disgustingly bleak.BUT, polling (and some common sense) shows that the concept of single payer is extremely popular. The vast majority of people, especially in the Midwest where I live, just aren't educated on matters enough to see the benefit. People need to be educated on the matter. This book is perhaps the best place to start!

This is a great way to present single payer, diving into today's broken system and then outlining how it could be fixed. Easy to understand and written well with some humor and plenty of data backing up the claims.

Heartbreaking, infuriating, and extremely informative. It's really weird (good weird) to have someone explain complicated stuff like Medicare 1) in a way that's actually understandable, and 2) in a way that focuses on the actual impact on individual people.

Let me begin by saying I agree with the overall argument made in this book; In that the US should adopt a single payer healthcare system. Our current way of doing things is the most expensive in the world yet it is the least effective among developed nations.Timothy Faust does a good job explaining why our current healthcare options too often are too expensive for most working class people to afford. He delves into the greed of insurance companies, and how the drug companies and medical device manufacturers artificially keep their costs high. As well as how private hospitals are often in bed with these two players, and how it forces regular people to go without the care they need or put it off until it becomes a serious problem.However, his ultimate conclusions on how we can develop a single payer system is not well thought out. He makes no mention of the lobbying power of big Pharma and the health insurance companies, and how much money they spend every year to keep the predatory system we have in place. Or how most of our current elected senators and congress-people at the State and Federal levels take money from these lobbyists. These entities have a much bigger stranglehold than Mr. Faust is either willing to admit or doesn't seem to be aware of. The handful of politicians he speaks fondly of are few and far between, and they do not have the power to enact such policy by themselves. Also, he makes no mention of how difficult Obamacare was to pass in the first place. Or how much it has been gutted since its inception, or how it was originally based off a Republican inspired health plan.Also, while he tries to be quirky and relatable with his pop culture references to pro wrestling or praising waffle house workers he tends to come across as being immature and sometimes insufferably tone deaf. He goes into full SJW mode one time too many for my taste, and ultimately this book just sounds like one big pandering spiel than an articulated and well researched argument. Toward the end of the book he draws attention to how Transgendered women and women in general statistically have it worse in our healthcare system. While this is true, he comes across as trying to scold and shame readers into caring more about them. Why exactly should average everyday men or people in general go out of their way to care about these individuals? Especially when you come across as caring more about these small minority populations and think they deserve more attention than everyone else. Or the suffering of the majority population doesn't count or matter as much.He doesn't give a good answer to that question, I think he only spoke so much on the topic as a way of showing radical left wing types he is in their camp and wants to stay on their good side.To sum it up, I agree with his overall message he's trying to put across but there are better written and smarter books on this topic. This is just another preaching to the choir entry into what is our modern political discourse.

Author is an excellent write. Very descriptive and thorough