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ISBN
9781594202346
Subject Area
Medical
Publication Name
Healing of America : a Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length
9.5 in
Subject
Health Care Delivery, Health Policy
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1 in
Author
T. R. Reid
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Width
6.5 in
Number of Pages
288 Pages
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594202346
ISBN-13
9781594202346
eBay Product ID (ePID)
72682244

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Healing of America : a Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Health Care Delivery, Health Policy
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Medical
Author
T. R. Reid
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-009555
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
" Important and powerful. .. a rich tour of health care around the world." -- Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times "You don't necessarily realize it while you're reading, but you're talking Comparative Health Economics 101. With a really fun professor. " -- Daily Kos "Not many writers of any ilk... can match T.R. Reid's ability to bring a light, witty touch to really serious topics --like health policy around the globe." -- New America Foundation
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.10973
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
RA395.A3R435 2009

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