The Pacific Research Institute has released "The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide" by PRI President and CEO Sally Pipes. This 182-page book takes on 10 popular myths about health care in America. Among the 10 myths are: government health care is more efficient; 46 million Americans can't get health care; universal coverage can be achieved by forcing everyone to buy insurance; government prevention programs reduce health care costs; and government-run systems in other countries are better and cheaper than America's.

The book's foreword is by Steve Forbes: "For anyone interested in getting to the core of America's health care troubles, this is the perfect book,” he writes. "And for health care policy makers, it should be required reading.”

The final chapter lays out several patient-centered prescriptions for reform. "I wrote this short book as a citizen's guide. Each chapter tackles a complex issue in straight-forward, easy-to-understand language,” said Pipes. The book challenges the conventional belief that only government can fix our health care system. In fact, says Ms. Pipes, "government overreach has put the system in a state of crisis.”
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Pipes' guide offers some ways to fix the country's biggest health care problems. "If we want to bring costs down and extend coverage to more Americans, we have to open the health care marketplace to competition -- by abolishing costly government regulations and reforming the tax code," she said.

Download a free copy of the PRI guide at:
http://www.pacificresearch.org/publications/the-top-ten-myths-of-american-health-care-a-citizens-guide

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