America’s Broken Health Care: Diagnosis and Prescription

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3/22/2023Updated: 3/28/2023

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The following is adapted from a talk delivered at Hillsdale College on March 5, 2023, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “Big Pharma.”

I developed a serious cardiac arrhythmia, ventricular tachycardia, seven years ago. It worsened over the past summer and early fall, and over the past six weeks, I’ve had several ambulance rides and hospitalizations. And my experience through this illustrates the good side as well as the bad side of medicine today.

John D. Abramson

M.D.

John David Abramson received his B.A. from Harvard College, his B.M.S. from Dartmouth Medical School, and his M.D. from Brown Medical School. He served as a family physician for 22 years, was twice voted “best doctor” in his area by readers of the local newspapers, and was three times selected by his peers as one of a handful of best family practitioners in Massachusetts. He has been on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for 16 years, where he has taught primary care and currently teaches health care policy. He is the author of “Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine” and, more recently, “Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It.”