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Sick The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---And the People Who Pay the Price

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ISBN-10: 0060580453

ISBN-13: 9780060580452

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jonathan Cohn

List price: $25.95
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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 checkups, let alone hospital visits. Some of these people end up losing money. Others end up losing something even 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 firsthand its impact on ordinary Americans. The stories…    
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Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/10/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

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.

Introduction: Boston
Gilbertsville
Deltona
Austin
Sioux Falls
Lawrence County
Chicago
Los Angeles
Denver
Conclusion: Washington
Sources and Notes
Acknowledgments
Index