...T. R. Reid's new book, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. (You can probably find it at your local library.) I'd seen his special, Sick Around the World, on Frontline and the book is every bit as interesting. It's also very readable.
To give you just one factoid from Chapter 3, according to a joint study by Harvard Law School and Harvard Medical School, 700,000 Americans filed for bankruptcy last year because of medical bills. (That's more than the population of Boston, Seattle, or Denver.) The total number in Britain, France, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, and Switzerland? Zero. Combined.
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