Predictive health

Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget{u2014}nearly $175 billion{u2014}is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, instead of using them to actually improve health. In Predictive Health, distinguished doctors Kenneth Brigham and Michael M.E. Johns propose a solution: invest earlier{u2014}and use science and…