What happens when a healthcare system prioritizes managing sickness over protecting health?
In Sick Care: Why Healthcare is Failing, Dr. Tamer Sabry examines the policies, financial incentives, and administrative barriers shaping American healthcare and their consequences for those who depend on it. From employment-based insurance and costly deductibles to coverage denials and medical debt, the book explores why insurance doesn't always mean access to care.
Across its chapters, Sabry addresses chronic illness, mental health, inequities, and the challenges facing seniors, children, and vulnerable communities. He considers how hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, and government decisions shape affordability, drawing on lessons from other countries.
The book also looks toward reform: stronger preventive care, continuous coverage, simpler enrollment, and a proposed National Integrated Eligibility and Coverage Platform designed to make assistance easier to navigate.
Written for patients, families, healthcare professionals, students, and policymakers, Sick Care invites readers to examine what healthcare should deliver and urges citizens, providers, and leaders to help build a system centered on access, dignity, and better health.
