The healing of America : a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-267) and index.

Reid explores health-care systems around the world in an effort to understand why the U.S. remains the only first world nation to refuse its citizens universal health care. Neither financial prudence nor concern for the commonweal explains the American position, according to Reid, whose findings divulge that the U.S. not only spends more money on health care than any other nation but also leaves 45 million residents uninsured, allowing about 22,000 to die from easily treatable diseases. Seeking treatment for the flareup of an old shoulder injury, he visits doctors in the U.S., France, Germany, Japan and Englandwith a stint in an Ayurvedic clinic in Indiain a quest for treatment that dovetails with his search for a cure for America's health-care crisis.

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