September 17, 2013 11:34AM # Goldhill: ObamaCare to Hurt Those It Purports to Help By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) --- SHARE Another excerpt from David Goldhill’s new book [*Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father – And How We Can Fix It*](http://www.amazon.com/Catastrophic-Care-American-Health-Father/dp/0307961540): > If the ACA places more of the burden of health care on the poor and the middle class, diverts resources into waste and unnecessary treatments, coddles an industry culture of dangerous sloppiness, and crowds out all other social priorities, then it will have actively hurt the very people it was intended to help. Goldhill is the CEO of the Game Show Network, a member of the board of the [Leapfrog Group](http://www.leapfroggroup.org/about_leapfrog), and will speak at a Cato forum on his book tomorrow, Wednesday, September 18, from 12–1:30 p.m. at the Cato Institute. The Brookings Institution’s [Kavita Patel](http://www.brookings.edu/experts/patelk) and I will provide comments. Click [here](https://www.cato.org/events/catastrophic-care-how-american-health-care-killed-father-how-we-can-fix-it) to register. ##### Related Tags [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).