NASHVILLE – Gov. Phil Bredesen is offering his prescription for what ails American’s health care system in the form of a book.
“Fresh Medicine: How to Fix Reform and Build a Sustainable Health Care System” is being published by Atlantic Monthly Press and will come out in October at a cost of $23 a copy.
“Basically, this is something I went out and sold to the publishers last summer, did most of the work then,” the governor said. “We agreed to hold everything off until we saw what happened with health care reform.”
Asked to summarize the book, Democrat Bredesen, who drew GOP praise for calling the Democratic legislation the “mother of all unfunded mandates,” said:
“You know my feeling about this, which is we’ve had reform. It doesn’t go far enough in a number of areas, particularly in the area of cost containment and those things.”