Hawaii's Health Care System Best for U.S.?
Doctor's new book proposes Hawaii's unique universal medical care system for all Americans.
Health Care Hawaii Style: Model for the Nation? by Frank L. Tabrah, M.D. explores how Hawaii's innovative medical system could help solve the nation's health care crisis.
The book is both a fascinating chronicle of the author's fifty years of service as a doctor in Hawaii, and an exploration of how Hawaii's unique medical care system evolved from the days of the plantations.
Today's health care system is in a crisis. Many authorities suggest that America would be better off moving towards a national health care system. But parts of America--specifically Hawaii--already have one. In this provocative book, Dr. Tabrah shows how such a system was developed and maintained in Hawaii, and explores how it can benefit the rest of the country.
Beautifully written and told with humanity and concern, it tells the story of how Tabrah began his work in Hawaii as a plantation doctor, and later as an academic physician. The plantations provided a model of universal medical care to their workers, one which Tabrah suggests could work for the country as a whole.
Insightful, thought-provoking and filled with over 40 photographs, some of them never before published, Health Care Hawaii Style may be just the prescription for America's health care crisis.
For more information, please contact the author at hbo(@)aloha.net . For sale online at Amazon.com, Borders.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Frank L. Tabrah, M.D. was born in Buffalo, New York. For over fifty years, he practiced medicine in Hawaii. A talented musician who plays the keyboard, organ, accordion and double bass, the author lives with his wife in Hawaii.
October 16th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
My book has three themes –one, to tell the world of Hawaii’s success with nearly universal care- that it is not an impossible national goal. What do you think about Hawaii’s care and the Washington fracas?
Theme 2- the question of the effectiveness of Hawaiian Medicine is a real cultural and scientific clash. Readers will find much to love or hate in my views of the medical kahuna’s art. Tell me of your experiences. After all, we are 200 years from knowing what he really could do then.
Theme3- the good values in plantation life, the public health successes, and the unique spirit of those years. Some laughs were impossible for the city dweller. One of mine was when a cow ate the entire top of my convertible.
Plantation life? remember you had universal care then. Demand it now.