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Sick : The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---And the People Who Pay the Price by Jonathan Cohn (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100060580453
ISBN-139780060580452
eBay Product ID (ePID)63753417
Product Key Features
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameSick : the Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---And the People Who Pay the Price
SubjectPublic Health, Health Care Delivery, Physicians, Health Care Issues, Insurance / Health, Practice Management & Reimbursement
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaHealth & Fitness, Business & Economics, Medical
AuthorJonathan Cohn
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight19.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-049236
ReviewsIn Sick, Jonathan Cohn . . . has written a call-to-arms for a complete transformation of American medicine., Cohn's book will infuriate you enough to make you want to scream at every member of Congress, 'Read this!', Jonathan Cohn's Sick is an eye-opening work on healthcare in America told through the stories of those in need., This is a stunningly important book. Jonathan Cohn lays bare the tragedy of our health care system.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal362.10973
SynopsisA penetrating work of reporting about the failure of America's medical system, as examined through the stories of the people who engineered the current health care revolution and those who have suffered from it., America's health care system is unraveling. Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves and their families--unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Some of these people end up losing money. Others end up losing something even more valuable: their health or even their lives. In this powerful work of original reportage, Jonathan Cohn travels across the United States--the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship--to investigate why this crisis is happening and to see firsthand its impact on ordinary Americans. The stories he brings back are tragic and infuriating. In Boston, a heart attack victim becomes a casualty of emergency room overcrowding when she is turned away from the one hospital that could treat her. In South Central L.A., a security guard loses part of his vision when he can't find affordable treatment for his diabetes. In the middle of the prairie heartland, a retired meatpacker sells his house to pay for the medications that keep him and his aging wife alive. And, in a tiny village tucked into the Catskill mountains, a mother of three young children decides against a costly doctor's visit--and lets a deadly cancer go undetected--because her husband's high-tech job no longer provides health insurance. Passionate, illuminating, and often devastating, Sick interweaves these stories with clear-eyed reporting from Washington and takes us inside the medical industry to chronicle the decline of America's health care system--and lays bare the consequences any one of us could suffer if we don't replace it.
LC Classification NumberRA395.A3C635 2007
