Curing Our Sick Health Care System: Founder of One of the Country's First Non-Profit Health Maintenance Organizations, Robert Gumbiner, M.D., Authors a Plan to Solve America's Healthcare Crisis.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Robert Gumbiner, M.D. (former founder and director of FHP, one of the nation's first non-profit HMOs) speaks out in his recent book Curing Our Sick Health Care System: A Solution to America's Healthcare Crisis (www.healthcarecure.org). "The basic health care system in the United States is not working and must be fixed," says Gumbiner. "Forty-five million Americans have no health care coverage and millions more are under-insured; yet we pay more for health care, per person, than any other developed county. We could provide quality health care coverage to every person in this country for no more than we are spending now on a dysfunctional and inefficient system."

Now available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, this book draws on Gumbiner's extensive experience in this country, as well as more than forty years studying health care systems around the world. Dr. Gumbiner debunks the myths used to oppose national universal health care. He shows, step-by-step, how we arrived at our current, dysfunctional system that leaves millions of people without adequate health care coverage. He argues, persuasively, that we have been misled by special interests (insurance and pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and the American Medical Association) into thinking a health care system funded through the government and managed for effective utilization will eliminate choice and never work. Rather, as demonstrated in this book, such a system - if well designed and managed - is the only practical solution to the health care crisis in the United States. For review copies or interview requests please contact Donna Leeds at 562.434.8565 (office) or cell at 949-310-5673.