The New Health Age

We have entered a new health age in this early part of the 21st century.  Humanity and particularly Americans are entering a new time of medical miracles and health care.  The thinking, delivery and economics of medicine and health care are changing and these changes will be accelerating in the next few years.

In the United States, the discussion about health care has largely been driven by fear, misinformation and manipulated by politicians.  Any discussion driven by these three forces is not an intelligent one.  That is why Jonathan Fleece and I have written “The New Health Age: The Future of Health Care in America”.  We wanted to write a book that would bring intelligence and understanding to the conversation about the future of health care in America.  As the quotes here show, this book is already being called THE book to read to better understand, and feel comfortable about the future landscape of health care in America.

Most people don’t realize that modern medicine is about 150 years old.  In 1865 Louis Pasteur identified germs as a significant cause of disease.  The Band-Aid was invented in 1920, penicillin in 1928 and the first flu vaccine in 1948. Cat scans were first used in the late 1970s.  So modern medicine is recent and is undergoing constant breakthroughs.  The current and soon to come medical miracles will usher in this New Health Age and will change how we think of both medicine and health care.

So to break through the …