the healing of america a global quest for better

Reid couches the issue of the fundamental moral decision to provide health care coverage to all citizens or not. His conclusion that all of these other plans spend less on health care administration than the United States, achieve better outputs than the US system, and cover all citizens within their countries is irrefutable. Reid describes his purpose in writing this book to “search the developed world for effective health care systems and take lessons from the ones that work best.” Not surprisingly, Reid finds positives and negatives in many of the systems he evaluates in an unbiased fashion. These countries, in doing so for less money, provide universal coverage for all their citizens. Reid describes the methods that other industrialized democracies have used to provide health care for citizens for far less than what is spent for health care in the United States.

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.In The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, author T.R. Seeking treatment for the flareup of an old shoulder injury, he visits doctors in the U.S., France, Germany, Japan and England-with a stint in an Ayurvedic clinic in India-in a quest for treatment that dovetails with his search for a “cure” for America's health-care crisis, a narrative device that sometimes feels contrived, but allows him valuable firsthand experience. 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. Neither financial prudence nor concern for the commonweal explains the American position, according to Reid, whose findings divulge that the U.S. remains the only first world nation to refuse its citizens universal health care. ) explores health-care systems around the world in an effort to understand why the U.S. Correspondent Reid ( The United States of Europe

The healing of america a global quest for better