Life for Health is a bold reimagining of how we fight chronic disease.
​​​
For decades, we've asked one health system to do two wildly different jobs - treating short-term issues and complex, long-term disease. It’s impossible.
The solution? A second system for chronic disease using life insurance instead of health insurance.
​
Part manifesto, part blueprint, Life for Health exposes the design flaws that keep Americans sick and how to fix them: a new system freed from health insurance, that gets Americans and their doctors working together to solve disease.
Americans stand to gain a decade plus of healthier years, and trillions of dollars in wealth and avoided sick care. Companies offering breakthroughs to prevent and cure disease - stifled by today’s health care behemoths - can finally prosper.
​
It’s all doable within existing laws. Life for Health shows how - blending deep insight with common sense to offer a truly revolutionary path forward.
Testimonials
"Brilliant, original, and practical. After reading Life for Health, it will seem obvious: of course we should use long-term arrangements like life insurance to stop long-term threats like chronic disease and cancer, ideally before they even start."
- Dr. Arza Raza, Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center
"Life for Health is one of those books that will forever change how you think about health care. It shows us how to stop “sick care” and create a system that actually prevents disease and rewards Americans and their doctors for getting and staying healthy.
- Dr. John Whyte, Chief Medical Officer, WebMD
About the Author
Jeremy Shane is a successful entrepreneur who has co-founded and built businesses in consumer health, education, and energy. During the aughts, he led operations of HealthCentral, a unique collection of online health communities to help people overcome chronic and life-threatening diseases, and later oversaw editorial operations at WebMD and Medscape. In education, he built high-quality online graduate degree programs for physical therapists and family nurse practitioners. His writings on health issues and drug pricing have been featured in STAT News and National Review. He is a non-resident fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center.
