Catastrophic care is the eye opening result goldhill explicates a health care system that now costs nearly 25 trillion annually bars many from treatment provides inconsistent quality of care offers negligible customer service and in which an estimated 200000 americans die each year from errors. He wrote a famous article in the atlantic how american health care killed my father about the problems with the healthcare system and how to fix it this book was published in 2013 and is an expansion of that article you can read the article to get the main gist of the book. Catastrophic care how american health care killed my father and how we can fix it user review kirkus a media executives take on our health care systems flaws and plan for a totally different approachwhen goldhill witnessed the death of his father from a hospital borne infection he decided to read full review. A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care how and why it is failing why expanding coverage will actually make things worse and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent affordable successful systemin 2007 david goldhills father died from infections acquired in a hospital one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per . A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health care how and why it is failing why expanding insurance coverage will only make things worse and how it can be transformed into a transparent affordable successful system in 2007 david goldhills father died from a series of infections acquired in a well regarded new york hospital the