"Our health care system is indeed broken and badly in need of repair. The traditional doctor-patient covenant has been replaced by a system of market-driven initiatives that have resulted in a shredding of that sacred bond. Hopefully, [this book] will explain to you just how our current system has become so dysfunctional, why so many of our citizens lack access to the miracles of American medicine, why our seniors are forced to choose between their blood pressure medications and their groceries, and why hardworking men and women stand to lose everything if, God forbid, they develop cancer." Book jacket.