Sick
The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
By Jonathan Cohn
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060580469, 336pp.)
Publication Date: May 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Health Care Delivery, Health Care Issues
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America's health care system is unraveling, with millions of hard-working people unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Jonathan Cohn traveled across the United States—the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee its citizens access to medical care—to investigate why this crisis is happening and to see firsthand its impact on ordinary Americans. Passionate, powerful, illuminating, and often devastating, Sick chronicles the decline of America's health care system, and lays bare the consequences any one of us could suffer if we don't replace it.
Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he has written about national politics and its impact on American communities for the past decade. He is also a contributing editor at The American Prospect and a senior fellow at the think tank Demos. Cohn, who has been a media fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation, has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Slate, and The Washington Monthly. A graduate of Harvard, he lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife and two children.
Congress is back in session, and the health care bills are headed for a conference committee. Jonathan Cohn, who blogs about health care issues for The New Republic, joins Fresh Air for a conversation about the difference between the House and Senate bills and what a compromise might look like. More at NPR.org
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“A terrific new book on our dysfunctional health care system.”
-Paul Krugman, The New York Times
“No one has thought harder about our heath care system than Jonathan Cohn.”
-E.J. Dionne, Jr., syndicated columnist and author of Why Americans Hate Politics
“Jonathan Cohn’s Sick is an eye-opening work on healthcare in America told through the stories of those in need.”
-Jerome Groopman, author of The Anatomy of Hope
“This is a stunningly important book. Jonathan Cohn lays bare the tragedy of our health care system.”
-Atul Gawande, author of Complications
“Cohn’s book will infuriate you enough to make you want to scream at every member of Congress, ‘Read this!’”
-David K. Shipler, author of The Working Poor
“An 80-year chronology of repeated market failure. . . . Read it and weep.”
-Slate
“In Sick, Jonathan Cohn . . . has written a call-to-arms for a complete transformation of American medicine.”
-Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here
Sick is one of those rare books that combines the personal with the sharply analytical.
-Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights
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