9781594202346-1594202346-The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

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

ISBN-13: 9781594202346
ISBN-10: 1594202346
Edition: 1
Author: T.R. Reid
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781594202346
ISBN-10: 1594202346
Edition: 1
Author: T.R. Reid
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover 288 pages

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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (ISBN-13: 9781594202346 and ISBN-10: 1594202346), written by authors T.R. Reid, was published by The Penguin Press in 2009. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Health Care Delivery (Administration & Medicine Economics, Health Policy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Health Care Delivery books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform.

In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost.

In his global quest to find a possible prescription, Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our own—including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada—where he finds inspiration in example. Reid shares evidence from doctors, government officials, health care experts, and patients the world over, finding that foreign health care systems give everybody quality care at an affordable cost. And that dreaded monster “socialized medicine” turns out to be a myth. Many developed countries provide universal coverage with private doctors, private hospitals, and private insurance.

In addition to long-established systems, Reid also studies countries that have carried out major health care reform. The first question facing these countries—and the United States, for that matter—is an ethical issue: Is health care a human right? Most countries have already answered with a resolute yes, leaving the United States in the murky moral backwater with nations we typically think of as far less just than our own.

The Healing of America lays bare the moral question at the heart of our troubled system, dissecting the misleading rhetoric surrounding the health care debate. Reid sees problems elsewhere, too: He finds poorly paid doctors in Japan, endless lines in Canada, mistreated patients in Britain, spartan facilities in France. Still, all the other rich countries operate at a lower cost, produce better health statistics, and cover everybody. In the end, The Healing of America is a good news book: It finds models around the world that Americans can borrow to guarantee health care for everybody who needs it.
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