This is a book that everyone should read before taking sides in the debate about an issue that, for many of us, is nothing less than a matter of life and death. Every year 18,000 American deaths could be prevented by adequate medical coverage. He argues that healthcare is not just a political and economic issue but a moral one: As the richest country in the world, we cannot go on performing so abysmally in studies that measure infant mortality and life expectancy. Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2009. Catalog Home » Catalog The healing of America : » Book » The healing of America: a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care (Book) Author: Reid, T. Reid shows how measures often criticized for being inefficient and expensive would streamline wasteful practices and save America a fortune. The healing of America : : a global quest for better. What most programs share are digitized medical records, low malpractice premiums, more modest earnings for doctors (who graduate with little or no tuition debt), and an insurance system not based on turning huge profits for corporate insurers. In Canada patients endure long waits to consult specialists, but in Japan you can see a star orthopedist within days. He discovers many systems, adapted for each country-and not the standardized, bureaucratic monolith painted by opponents of universal insurance.

Reid visits France, Germany, Japan, Canada, the UK, and India.

Using his injured shoulder as an occasion to ask doctors what treatments they prescribe and at what cost, journalist T.R. The Healing of America cuts, with the skill of a brilliant surgeon, through the myths and misunderstandings surrounding the American healthcare crisis.

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