HEALING OF AMERICA: A GLOBAL QUEST FOR BETTER, CHEAPER, AND FAIRER HEALTH CARE
by REID, T. R.
List Price: HK$ 247.00
¡@ISBN
9781594202346
¡@Subject
MIND, BODY & HEALTH
¡@Publisher
PENGUIN PRESS
¡@Publication
2009
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
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.
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.
