Beyond Medicare For All

Ken Terry, the author of two previous books on healthcare reform, has been writing about the healthcare field for more than 30 years. As a senior editor at Medical Economics from 1993-2007, he covered many aspects of medical practice and the healthcare business, including managed care and information technology. In 2008, Terry began freelancing for such publications as Medscape Medical News, WebMD, cio.com, InformationWeek, and Fierce Healthcare. Terry's first book, Rx for Health Care Reform (Vanderbilt University Press, 2007), won acclaim from several health policy experts and a favorable review in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Joseph E. Scherger, MD, then a professor at the University of California, San Diego, called the book "just the kind of bold analysis needed today to put reason and common sense back into health policy." The American Association for Physician Leadership in 2020 published Terry's second book, Physician-Led Healthcare Reform: A New Approach to Medicare For All. Tom Bodenheimer, MD, MPH, founding director of the Center for Excellence in Primary Care, said this book "offers an encyclopedia of knowledge on the U.S. healthcare system, written in an engaging, popular style." Terry also helped write Stephen K. Klasko's 2023 book, Feelin' Alright: How the Message in The Music Can Make Healthcare Healthier. In addition, he contributed to a 2016 book about population health management by several executives of IBM Watson Health. Terry recalls how his baptism by fire at Medical Economics ignited his interest in fixing the healthcare system. When a friend got him hired at the magazine, the editor at the time, Steve Murata, was unconvinced he could do the job. So Murata threw at him the hardest, gnarliest assignments he could think of, including pieces on how preventive care and medical advances raise health costs. Terry survived and thrived, and this book presents everything he has learned about healthcare since then.