The book first summarizes the need for comprehensive (rather than incremental) reform of the American healthcare system and examines the importance of separating healthcare from governmental, and commercial pressures.
Drawing from the experience of the creation of the Federal Reserve System, which reformed the US banking/financial system in the beginning of the 20th century, this book highlights similarities between the current arguments for single payer versus commercial health insurance systems and comparable arguments in the early 1900s for a central bank versus regional commercial banks.
The book then introduces a novel solution: the establishment of a National Medical Board that is based on the Federal Reserve system that helped fix the American banking system over a century ago. Along with other innovations, the plan would create a modern, evidence-based healthcare system run by healthcare professionals, offering universal benefits coverage for basic healthcare needs, yet allowing for commercial insurance participation.
The book offers a unique roadmap toward achieving comprehensive reform of the entire American healthcare system that would allow for universal benefits coverage, universal access to providers and services, achieving evidenced practice and relative protection from political and financial pressures.