“Like the shot heard round the world, Dan Sem fires a bold and brave wake-up message that every American needs to hear. Addressing the biggest problem the U.S. economy faces -- the excessive, burdensome cost of healthcare -- Sem delivers a voice of sanity and reason amid the corrupt and needlessly complex. He not only exposes the oppressive healthcare cartel and their unchecked greed, but, more important, also provides the rest of us a nonpartisan path out, one paved with price transparency and healthy competition, and lit with a healthy dose of sunshine. “Purple Solutions” advances a healthcare revolution whose time is now.”
- Cynthia A. Fisher, Life sciences entrepreneur and Founder & Chairman of PatientRightsAdvocate.org
“Purple Solutions provides the most substantive account of what is ailing our country’s healthcare system, as well as real-world solutions to the maladies it reveals. This insightful view of a multi-faceted problem will be relevant to a broad group of stakeholders, including healthcare administrators, the health-insurance and pharmaceutical industries, Congress, lawyers, lobbyists, physicians, and patients. As healthcare will be hotly debated during the runup to the 2020 presidential election, we cannot ignore this acute crisis. While every subject seems to be politicized lately, our broken healthcare system is neither a Republican nor a Democratic issue. It is an American issue, which is tackled brilliantly in this important book.”
- Bhupendra O. Khatri, MD, FAAN, author of Healing the Soul & Healthcare 911
“If you want to be infuriated, this is the book for you. The chapter on PBM sleight-of-hand alone is worth the price of admission. They end up making more money than the manufacturers, without actually doing anything. Nice work if you can get it…and they have.”
- Al Lewis, CEO, Quizzify and author of Why Nobody Believes the Numbers and Cracking Health Costs
“America’s healthcare debate has long been a red-versus-blue affair, focused on how we pay for care rather than on how we produce care. This debate has left little room for bipartisan compromise. In this book, twenty authors suggest ways to blend red and blue ideas into bipartisan purple solutions. Numerous chapters, including mine, focus on production (the delivery system) rather than payments (the insurance system). But the common thread throughout is the search for solutions that don’t necessarily split along party lines.”
- Robert Graboyes, Senior Research Fellow, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
“Private companies have adopted many pragmatic solutions to lower health costs. If adopted broadly, the nation could afford universal coverage. This book shows the way.”
- John Torinus, author of The Grassroots Health Care Revolution and The Company That Save Healthcare
“These wide-ranging essays propose pragmatic answers to the broad array of dysfunction, perverse incentives, and waste afflicting American health care. Though grounded in market understanding, the authors look for sensible middle approaches to achieving the objectives of universal coverage and high quality, patient-responsive care.”
- David Goldhill, author of Catastrophic Care