This is episode 70, “How a Conservative Came to Support Single-payer Healthcare.”

My guest, Joseph Q Jarvis, MD, MSPH, received his medical and public health training at the University of Utah School of Medicine. His career includes time as a family doctor at a community health center, the state health officer for Nevada, a public health physician for state and federal agencies, a physician consultant with a national practice, and a specialist in occupational lung disease at a tertiary care center.  Dr. Jarvis has seen American health care across the entire spectrum of care.

Thirty years ago Dr. Jarvis came to the realization that American health care fails to deliver quality care at a reasonable price, and that Americans are suffering from society wide health insecurity.  Since then he has done everything he could think of to help all Americans realize how our health system is failing us and what we can do about it.  He shares his conclusions with anyone who will listen, or read his book “The Purple World: Healing the Harm in American Health Care.”  

Do not miss this episode as Dr. Jarvis explains how and why he came to support Medicare for All.

Please note that there was a connection problem that may have affected sound quality.

Dr. Jarvis’s website can be found here.

His book, “The Purple World: Healing the Harm in American Health Care,” can be purchased here. 

A review of his book can be found here.