Misdiagnosed: why all the money in the world won't fix what's wrong with America's health care system.
Washington Monthly › Vol. 39 Nbr. 5, May 2007
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Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price - Book review
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Misdiagnosed: why all the money in the world won't fix what's wrong with America's health care system.
Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price By Jonathan Cohn HarperCollins, 320 pp.
In his new book, Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis--and the People Who Pay the Price, Jonathan Cohn, a senior editor at the New Republic, offers a series of chilling anecdotes about ordinary Americans who lack affordable medical care. There's the mother of three who, after her husband loses his high-tech job and family health benefits, puts off seeing a doctor and winds up dying of breast cancer. There's the security guard in Los Angeles who can't afford treatment for his diabetes and winds up partially losing his vision. There's the impecunious former nun hounded by bill collectors from a Catholic "charity" hospital. In all, Cohn fills eight chapters with similar tales of desperation, along the way pausing to provide policy analysis and historical background--all in an attempt to explain the larger forces at work in America's health care crisis. Cohn tells his stories with compassion and rich detail, vividly demonstrating how the cost of health care threatens not only the finances...See the full content of this document
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