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In 250 years, we have not figured out healthcare in this country.
Steve Stevens has lived an extraordinary life as an AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories Mathematician/Physicist, world record cyclist, two-time Hawaii Ironman finisher, and converted his 1979 home to be fossil fuel free, while powering his cars and neighbor's homes with his surplus solar energy. He was healthy and active when Kaiser Permanente's healthcare system failed him.
I Cheer Luigi is his firsthand account of what happened next: the misdiagnoses, the bureaucratic walls, and the slow erosion of trust between a patient and the system meant to protect him.
This is not a policy paper. It is one man's story, told plainly, about what it feels like to be failed by the largest HMO in the country. For anyone who has battled a healthcare system, for their partners and loved ones, and for the health insurance policymakers and medical school educators with the power to change it, Steve's story is a cautionary tale.
Steve Stevens has lived an extraordinary life as an AT&T Bell Telephone Laboratories Mathematician/Physicist, world record cyclist, two-time Hawaii Ironman finisher, and converted his 1979 home to be fossil fuel free, while powering his cars and neighbor's homes with his surplus solar energy. He was healthy and active when Kaiser Permanente's healthcare system failed him.
I Cheer Luigi is his firsthand account of what happened next: the misdiagnoses, the bureaucratic walls, and the slow erosion of trust between a patient and the system meant to protect him.
This is not a policy paper. It is one man's story, told plainly, about what it feels like to be failed by the largest HMO in the country. For anyone who has battled a healthcare system, for their partners and loved ones, and for the health insurance policymakers and medical school educators with the power to change it, Steve's story is a cautionary tale.