Featured on NPR's Hidden Brain, HLTH Conference Keynote, and the Economist, and lecturing widely.
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In The Long Fix: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis with Solutions that Work for Everyone, physician and health care CEO Vivian S. Lee, MD, cuts through to the heart of the health care crisis. The problem with the way medicine is practiced, she explains, is not so much who’s paying, it’s what we are paying for. Insurers, employers, the government, and individuals pay for every procedure, prescription, and lab test, whether or not it makes us better—and that is both backwards and dangerous.
Using clear and compelling language, Dr. Lee paints a picture that is both realistic and optimistic. It may not be a quick fix, but her concrete action plan for reform—for employers and other payers, patients, clinicians, and policy makers—can reinvent health care, and create a less costly, more efficient, and healthier system for all.
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MEDIA
Healthcare’s Long Fix | ZDoggMD (50 min)
May 22, 2020
Fixing America’s Health Care System Amid Crisis | Morning Joe/MSNBC (5 min)
May 26, 2020
The Long Fix | CSPAN and TOWNHALL (58 min)
June 2, 2020
PODCASTS
Interview with BABBAGE HOST KEN CUKIER, starting at 10:50.
How to Fix America’s Broken Health System (And Why It Hasn’t Happened) | Hidden Forces Podcast (50 min)
June 29, 2020
Something in the Air | Babbage/The Economist Radio (7 min, starting at 10:50)
July 15, 2020
The Long Fix. Solutions for Healthcare: Dr. Vivian Lee | How Do We Fix It? Podcast (30 min)
May 29, 2020
RELATED PUBLICATIONS
U.S. Health Care Is in Flux. Here’s What Employers Should Do | Harvard Business Review
June 15, 2020
Fee for service is a terrible way to pay for health care. Try a subscription model instead STAT News
June 12, 2020
How to Overcome Clinicians’ Resistance to Nudges | Harvard Business Review
May 3, 2019
REVIEWS
“Lee speaks with authority.... Especially in light of the coronavirus emergency, Lee’s call for everyone to play a role in ‘the Long Fix’ rings true”
“An excellent overview of the problems and potential solutions”
“This book is terrific. It will change the way you think, not only about the world of health care and how to solve the big policy questions, but also about your own approach to health and what you and your community can do about it.”
“The Long Fix is a highly readable, brilliantly crafted playbook of solutions to America’s ailing health care system.”
“A health professional turns an experienced eye toward sensible, ground-level actions to make medical care better and cheaper”
