
Reworking America’s Healthcare System looks at what works and much of it comes from past lessons. The first lesson came with my graduate degree in the history of science and ideas. Our current healthcare system largely came from Louis Pasteur and his germ theory interacting with the old humoral system that focused on treating symptoms. He showed us how germs cause many of our diseases and began our battle to overcome them—mostly by killing them. But microbes are not the weak...









