One of the great mysteries of life in the United States is why Americans are so devoted to their health-care system.

Infant-mortality rates are in the nineteenth percentile of industrialized nations.

Americans have fewer doctors per capita than most Western countries and many fewer primary care physicians.

We go to the doctor less than people in other Western countries.

We are less satisfied with our health care than residents of other countries.

American life expectancy is lower than the Western average.

Childhood-immunization rates in the United States are lower than average.

Our medical system is top heavy with specialists who are only paid when we get sick and who have little incentive for us to be well.

The United States spends more than a thousand dollars per capita per year - or close to four hundred billion dollars - on health care related paperwork and administration.

Why have we stuck loyally with a health-care system that leaves so many of its citizenry pulling out their teeth with pliers?

Anyone might be led to say that if we are devoting so much of our resources and getting so little in return there must be something very wrong.

At Reinventing Health we believe that throwing more expensive, complex solutions at the problem is a further waste.

We are advocating community place based solutions that support the well being of people, are human in scale and encourage personal responsibility and management of health.

Check out our PROJECTS page to see some of the proposals in which we are engaged.