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# *Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father — and How We Can Fix It*

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Date and Time 

September 18, 2013 12 - 1:30 PM EDT 

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Featuring the author **David Goldhill**, CEO, the Game Show Network; with comments by **Robert Graboyes**, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; moderated by **Michael F. Cannon**, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute. 

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After the needless death of his father, business executive David Goldhill began a personal exploration of a health care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. In *Catastrophic Care*, Goldhill shows the U.S. health care sector is not worth preserving in anything like its current form — and President Obama’s health care law is likely to exacerbate its failings. Goldhill proposes a different and radical solution to these agonizing problems.

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