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All rights reserved. For all the scope of his research and his ability to mint neat rebuttals to the common American misconception that universal health care is socialized medicine, Reid neglects to address the elephant in the room: just how are we to sell these changes to the mighty providers and insurers? (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From Publishers WeeklyWashington Post correspondent Reid (The United States of Europe) explores health-care systems around the world in an effort to understand why the U.S. not only spends more money on health care than any other nation but also leaves 45 million residents uninsured, allowing ab

Reid is a journalist who has an excellent writing style A superb book. T.R. Reid is a journalist who has an excellent writing style. He identifies and examines all of the various types of health care systems in the world--Single Payer, which we are hearing so much about today and which our Medicare system is; the Bismarck Model of private (NON PROFIT) insurance companies; the Beveridge model, which is actual "socialized" medicine; the U.S. model, which actually is a dysfunctional conglomeration of the 3 previous models PLUS, the primary private for profit system that delivers substandard health care to. Diane S. said Wow! I sure learned a lot about the world's health care systems. I learned so much from this book. Like most Americans, I assumed that European health systems all worked the same -- run by the government, with health providers employed by the government ("socialized medicine," in other words.) Not true. Britain runs that way (and it's the leading system in preventative care, by the way), but other European nations are mostly private doctors and private insurance companies, where the patient has complete choice of doctors and hospitals. The big difference is those insurance companies are non-profit, and they mus. "Good with an asterisk" according to Jonathon. So much of the book is great. Reid spends quite a bit of time weaving comparative health care economics of the developed world through the anecdote of his chronically injured shoulder. This book has a lot of valuable information in it and generally I think he does a pretty good and fair job of comparing various health care economies on at least an introductory level.The bad part is that he has a slant and penchant for pseudoscience in medicine. He talks about Ayurvedic medicine as the only thing that works for his shoulder blah blah blah. It doesn

R. Reid visits industrialized democracies around the world--France, Britain, Germany, Japan, and beyond--to provide a revelatory tour of successful, affordable universal health care systems. Now updated with new statistics and a plain-English explanation of the 2010 health care reform bill, The Healing of America is required reading for all those hoping to understand the state of health care in our country, and around the world.. A New York Times BestsellerWith an Explanation of the 2010 Health Reform BillBringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way, New York Times bestselling author T

His books include The United States of Europe, The Chip, and Confucius Lives Next Door. T. REID is a longtime correspondent for The Washington Post and former chief of its Tokyo and London bureaus as well as a commentator for National Public Radio. R.

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