ARLO J BENSINGER stated April 15th: 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.
Ant McWatt comments: Arlo, Many thanks for pointing out "Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis" which I would encourage Platt to read before he posts more nonsense about privatised healthcare on this forum. Though I guess that would be too much like.... "preparing a thesis". :-) Another reference that Platt should follow up is the "Thirty Days" TV series by Morgan Spurlock (he's famous for eating _only_ McDonald's for a month and filming his near fatal experience by doing so) which has been broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK recently. The first program from Series One was particularly telling as the viewer saw how it was privatised healthcare which ultimately made it impossible for Morgan's Spurlock (whose basically a healthy person) to live on the minimum wage in the US for even a month. Other issues in this revealing series deal with Muslims in the US, homosexuality (where a homophobe moves to San Francisco's notoriously gay Castro district), the environment (where two professional Americans move to a remote eco-village), alcohol (where a mother binges on the drug for 30 days as a lesson to her teenage daughter), immigration (where a border patrol guard lives with an illegal immigrant Mexican family in East Los Angeles and religion (where an atheist woman agrees to spend 30 days living with a born again Christian family in Texas). For more details follow this link: http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=7&pageParam=2&letter= Best wishes, Anthony ======================================== "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." . _________________________________________________________________ Txt a lot? Get Messenger FREE on your mobile. https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/ 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/
