You will not face illness alone. For more than a century, Americans have debated health care in abstractions—cost curves, risk pools, and political rhetoric—while families quietly perform impossible arithmetic at kitchen tables. The American Health Promise closes that gap. This is not another manifesto. It is a rigorous, human-centered blueprint for a national health system designed around dignity, care, and democratic accountability. Through vivid narrative, the book follows caregivers, nurses, patients, and even insurance reviewers as they navigate a system that too often exhausts those it is meant to serve. These lived experiences are paired with something rare in the health-care debate: a complete, evidence-grounded solution. In clear, accessible terms, the book explains how universal health coverage would work—how it would be financed, what it would replace, and what it would preserve—while engaging the most vigorous counterarguments with transparency and intellectual honesty. The final sections go further, presenting model legislation intended for introduction, debate, amendment, and improvement through the democratic process. Released into the public domain, The American Health Promise belongs to no party and no ideology. It is an invitation—to citizens, professionals, and policymakers alike—to imagine a health system worthy of the people it serves. Because the promise has not yet been made. But it could be.