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

Cohn, Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060580453 ISBN 13: 9780060580452

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007

Synopsis

A cautionary report on what the author believes to be the failures of America's medical system is told through the experiences of its victims, from a worker whose wife died from cancer after his employer stopped providing insurance, to a disabled infant's mother who fought to get therapy coverage. 20,000 first printing.

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Review:

Sick is one of those rare books that combines the personal with the sharply analytical.--Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights

"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

"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

"This is a stunningly important book. Jonathan Cohn lays bare the tragedy of our health care system."--Atul Gawande, author of Complications

"A terrific new book on our dysfunctional health care system."--Paul Krugman, The New York Times

"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

"An 80-year chronology of repeated market failure. . . . Read it and weep."--Slate

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"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060580453
• ISBN 13: 9780060580452
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 302