Healing of America A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

Name: Healing of America A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
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ISBN: 9780143118213

ISBN-10: 0143118218

ISBN-13: 9780143118213

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Authors: T. R. Reid

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Important and powerful...a rich tour of health care around the world." -Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times How is it that all other industrialized democracies provide health care for their citizens as a reasonable cost-something the United States has never managed to do? In The Healing of America, New York Timesbestselling author T.S. Reid shows how they do it, bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way. In his global quest to find a prescription for American health care, Reid finds that it's not all "socialized medicine" out there. Instead, many industrialized democracies rely on free-market models the U.S. could use to cure a health system that…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/31/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.42" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

The author of five books in English and two in Japanese. Through his reporting for The Washington Post, his syndicated weekly column, and his lighthearted commentary from around the world for National Public Radio, he has become one of America's best-known foreign correspondents. Reid lives in London.



Prologue: A Moral Question



A Quest For Two Cures



Different Models, Common Principles



The Paradox



France: The Vital Card



Germany: "Applied Christianity"



Japan: Bismarck on Rice



The UK: Universal Coverage, No Bills



Canada: "Sorry to Keep you Waiting"



Out of Pocket



Too Big to Change?



An Apple a Day



The First Question



Major Surgery


An Afterword: "Obamacare" Explained


Appendix: The Best Health Care System in the World


A Note of Thanks


Notes


Index