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  • Hardcover: 365 pages
  • Publisher: Primal Nutrition, Inc.; 1 edition (October 21, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1939563097
  • ISBN-13: 978-1939563095
  • Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.2 x 9.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
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Your benefit from reading this book is determined by your expectations. The title, Primal Prescription, hearkens to the 'Primal' book series and world-view brain-child of Mark Sisson (who also wrote the forward). The second half of the book focuses on educating readers in responsible medical decision-making in line with the 'Primal' goal of engendering personal health. However, do not make the mistake of reading this book to understand the 'Primal' philosophy. I know that this is a gripe with some reviews, but they should understand that this is beyond the scope of the book. Go read the original if you want to learn about 'Primal' living. That being said, having never been exposed to the 'Primal' ideas myself, I didn't feel as if I missed out on anything.

The major theme of this book combines libertarian worldview and the Primal philosophy: Just as government intervention in free-markets leads to lower standards of living, modern human lifestyles that go against our evolutionary history lead to negative health outcomes.

This book is mainly divided into two parts: (1) The history, politics, and economic reasoning of interventionism in US healthcare, and (2) what individual patients can do to improve and protect themselves within (or outside) of the system. Here is the table of contents to get a good idea of the book contents:

Part I: Understanding US healthcare, up through Obamacare
1. How we got here: a brief history of US healthcare through 2009
2. The deadly FDA
3. The Medicare Ponzi Scheme
4. Perverse Economics of US medicine

Part II: Obamacare, the futility of health redistribution
5. The inner 'logic' of the Affordable Care Act
6. Fatal flaws of the ACA
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Drs. McGuff and Murphy shed light on the little-known history of the American Medical system and in the process provide an eye-opening appraisal of the problems and absurdities of the present state of affairs. I suspect very few people are aware of the historical facts of American health care and fewer still have an understanding of the complex and sinister economic latticework that subsumes insurance, doctors, the FDA, pharma, and hospitals. The authors affably providee simple explanations to complicated topics and do an excellent job of giving analogies and scenarios to help us understand the real consequences of entering the "belly of the beast". Most importantly, they offer incredibly helpful, actionable solutions to the serious problems discussed therein.

Some of the topics of the book include how the medical establishment got to its current doomed state, how the FDA is far more dangerous than we all suspect, how the current health care paradigm amounts to a Ponzi scheme, why health care and health insurance are not remotely the same thing, how to become knowledgable about medical screenings and medications, and, critically, how to make necessary lifestyle and diet changes to take back control of your health.

There's so much great information in the book but its most salient message is that we (all of us) must take immediate responsibility for our health and that we can all learn how to be the genuine captains of our own "health care team" by adopting a primally (or paleo) inspired lifestyle.

As a side note, as a Canadian with access to one of the most revered health care systems in the world, I think a book like is an important cautionary tale of how quickly things can deteriorate in any health care program under the right (wrong) circumstances and how we must never rest on our laurels with respect to medicare.

A excellent book that is, in my mind, required reading for all.
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If you want a non-partisan explanation of what is wrong with the American health care system and what you can do to try to protect yourself as much as possible this book is a good place to start. Murphy, the Economist, leads us through the no doubt well meaning politics and laws that have brought the health care system to the brink of collapse. Both Republicans and Democrats share the blame here. McGuff, the M.D., regales us with stories of the problems doctors and hospitals are faced with and provides advice on how to navigate the broken system as much as possible. What I got from reading this book is if you are healthy do everything possible to stay that way. If you are enmeshed in the system due to ill health there is valuable information here for you regarding drugs and diet.
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I am a practicing ophthalmologist in private practice for the last 16 years. In all my time of reading and studying the healthcare system I found this book to the be the best systematic review of the situation I've encountered so far. John Goodman's book Priceless is also a great volume. This book is written a clear lucid style. The concepts are given a proper historical context. Some economic fundamentals are described as well. Clearly the authors are trying to convey the message that the US healthcare system was messed up before the Affordable Care Act and that something needed to be done. But the ACA was not the solution and will only exacerbate the problems it was intended possibly to solve. I personally agree.
As difficult as it may be for some people to understand or accept the solution to making healthcare and health insurance ( they are not the same thing ) more affordable is market freedom. The government should get out of the medical marketplace.
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