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Product Description Best selling author TR Reid takes a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, reveals possible ways for the United States to reform. Shows in The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author TR Reid, like all other industrialized democracies, the United States can do something does not seem to me to do: health care for everyone at a reasonable price have made. Visited in his search for the global search for a possible prescription, Reid. . . More>>
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for better, cheaper and Health Care Fair
Back Shaft
February 26th, 2010 at 05:30
Are you open enough to accept only like-minded Liberal / Progressive barf as this is the book for you! Do not think, just order “one click”. It will boost your self-esteem, and as if that’s not enough, you can even enjoy assumptive evidence that they are intellectually inferior to anyone who is different from your thoughts hippie college’s professors. Do you feel comfortable, because he says it was “fair” on the cover. Almost as good as celebrating Kwanzaa, or under a government agency (FREE) Prozac. Rating: 1 / 5
Cindy R. Joseph
February 26th, 2010 at 08:02
I lived overseas in New Zealand for a year and worked as a senior MD in their system. Useful drugs were denied, specialists were in short supply, toilets in surgery of patients were cleaned and families, as they were too dirty — in short, they sucked. My wife Cindy was a condition (also needed back surgery at the Mayo Clinic done in the return in 2 months) — wait 2 years. It was not finished yet — she lived in excrutiating pain. Private insurers abroad must be covered before always present Gegebenheiten.Seien careful what you ask. Universal health insurance is not just universal health insurance. All other countries in the world are parasites from research into the American system. We do collect more than the rest of the world, and it shows in the Nobels. Rating: 1 / 5
Ed Schultz
February 26th, 2010 at 10:31
If you are looking for information about the types of health systems in other countries is available and how they work, this is an excellent read. However, if you are looking for a fresh look as a possible solution to the problem of America’s book is a Zeitverschwendung.Der author spends a lot of time Dissing the insurance companies. For example, he notes that the administrative costs to add up to 20% of the cost of medical care, when in fact it is closer to 7%. Granted, that is much higher than in other countries, but not as wrong as it would lead to glauben.Er notes (also in the final chapter s) that America) series against the middle (or end in relation to health care . But why is it that if someone is a problem, they always want our hospitals has come? He glows continuously by how well other systems are just glossed over the negatives. For example, there are only a handful of references in the book about the long waiting times in Canada (shoulded for his injury, he said, 18 months!), But he spends pages and pages discussing how big the system. In Britain, there is a note that the only solution to his shoulder problem dealing “with it”. Is this a good system? From reading his book you would assume we should all rush and their system is the most glaring deficiency implementieren.Aber that he very careful never to mention the word “rationing”. He says that governments “face decisions,” and have “choices”, which is care available. But one thing that is common to all these systems that they use to rationing. Is this a good solution? Is that something that Americans would tolerate? The answer should be yes, and the author makes a brief case for the quality of life. What he does not mention that the figure is a considerable cost to health care of the superhuman efforts to people alive in the last 5 years of their lives. Check out these statistics in his book, insisting that the only way to have an affordable health care in America, rationing, no matter where they rationed, and that would have been a good book muss.Da but he is so inclined and direction makes the case that we have a system in America and that it is reprehensible that we do not, I can not give a lot of stars biased. Rating: 1 / 5
R. Sweeney
February 26th, 2010 at 10:53
OK – this is a newly published book and even some advertising on “All Things Considered” on NPR. But. . . Paper Price: 14 U.S. Dollars. 27Kindle Price: 13 U.S. Dollars. 70Kindle Save: $ 0 57What a rip.Genau what it is that Kindle electronic version of the publisher and Amazon does it cost? I’m not going to buy both versions, unless the Kindle version is in the price nieder.Ach yes, and by the way, Barnes & Noble eReader version 9 U.S. dollars. 99. Kindle premium is 37%. Rating: 4 / 5
Leonard W. O'Brian
February 26th, 2010 at 13:34
This book may be helpful for rehabilitation after hip surgery, or to prepare for a hip surgery. It has little value for deciding to support a person, whether they have hip surgery, still less to decide value for the support of a person to choose which type of surgery. Not be guided by the inclusion of the editor of a (very short astray) chapter entitled “Hip Implant Surgery.” Spoke wenig.Leonard O’Brian Rating: 2 / 5