Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America'

Fresh Air, NPR by Terry Gross, T.R. Reid | Aug. 24, 2009 (Interview)

(Audio - streaming) Journalist and author T.R. Reid set out on a global tour of hospitals and doctors' offices, all in the hopes of understanding how other industrialized nations provide affordable, effective universal health care. The result: his book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care.

Reid is a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post — in whose pages he recently addressed five major myths about other ... Full Story »

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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 18, 2009

Fascinating interview about health care systems around the world with Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid. The author discusses with great factual detail his personal experience with health care systems in a variety of countries, such as the U.K., France, Germany, Switzerland and Japan.

T. R. Reid explains very clearly why the American health care system is one of the least efficient systems in the world. Makes me question the effectiveness of capitalism for addressing complex social issues such as health care.

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