Beyond the Medical Meltdown: Working together for Sustainable Health Care Beyond the Medical Meltdown describes the predicament we are in today in relation to health care and prescribes positive and concrete solutions to create a new effective and affordable health care system. These solutions require us to step out of the box and form new economic partnerships of practitioners and patients on local levels throughout the United States. These cooperative partnerships of mutual responsibility are a third force that will take the place of both conventional insurance companies that drain communities of resources and create adversarial relationships with families and small businesses, and large governmental programs with unsustainable bureaucracies and rigid rules. This book will engage the reader with imaginative yet practical solutions to our health care dilemmas. It calls upon us to create something new that serves everyone in the healing of illness. C O N T E N T S: Introduction Chapter 1: Meltdown Chapter 2: Health Care 2006 Chapter 3: The Future of Health Care Conclusion Appendices: Healthy Medicine and Sustainability Health Care and the Spirit of America About the Author Robert Zieve, M.D., co-founder of Healthy Medicine Academy. After a near death-experience, Dr. Zieve, M.D. became inspired to manifest his vision: Healthy Medicine: A New Mainstream in Health Care, an integrated and inclusive model combining the best of science and nature, wisdom, and compassion. He is particularly interested in Integrative Cancer Care and in cultivating what he calls “exceptional medicine,” committed to excellence, deep moral integrity, selflessness, and service.