I recommended this before, but since its now directly related to the thread thought I'd mention it again. "Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - And the People Who Pay the Price", by Jonathan Cohn. Excerpt from book's website (http://sickthebook.com/) follows.
"America's health care system is unraveling. Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves and their families - unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular check-ups, let alone for hospital visits. Some of these people end up losing money. Others end up losing something more valuable: Their health or even their lives. In this powerful work of original reportage, Jonathan Cohn travels across the United States - the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship - to investigate why this crisis is happening and to see, first-hand, its impact on ordinary Americans. The stories he brings back are tragic and infuriating. In Boston, a heart attack victim becomes a casualty of emergency room overcrowding when she is turned away from the one hospital that could treat her. In South Central L.A., a security guard loses part of his vision when he can't find affordable treatment for his diabetes. In the middle of the prairie heartland, a retired meatpacker sells his house to pay for the medications that keep him and his aging wife alive. And, in a tiny village tucked into the Catskill mountains, a mother of three young children decides against a costly doctor's visit - and lets a deadly cancer go undetected - because her husband's high-tech job no longer provides health insurance. Passionate, illuminating, and often devastating, Sick weaves these stories with clear-eyed reporting from Washington and inside the medical industry to chronicle the decline of American's health care system - and lay bare the consequences any one of us could suffer if we don't replace it." moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
