In her incisive new book, Regina Herzlinger rips away the façade of our health care system – one that runs at the expense of those who most need it, patients, and those who most serve it, doctors. Herzlinger reveals how a trio of third parties – Congress, insurers, and hospitals – has stopped consumer-driven health care, instead creating a system that puts patients and their doctors dead last.

Regina E. Herzlinger, often referred to as the “Godmother of Consumer-Driven Health Care,” is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. She was the first woman to be tenured at the Harvard Business School as the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration. She is widely recognized for her innovative research in health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of consumer-driven health care and health care focused factories – two terms that she coined.

Herzlinger has been honored with numerous awards, including the American College of Healthcare Executives' Thompson Book of the Year Award twice and the Academy of Healthcare Executives Research Award three times. She received the Hospital Financial Managers Association’s Board of Directors award and has been repeatedly selected one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" in Modern Healthcare.

Professor Herzlinger’s authority on health care was solidified by the success of her previous books: in Market-Driven Health Care, she addressed the need to reform the way health care is supplied; in Consumer-Driven Health Care, she reviewed the way health insurance is supplied. With her newest achievement, Who Killed Health Care?, Professor Herzlinger issues a call to arms to revolutionize our health care system with a consumer-driven cure.