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Sick, April 2007
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The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
HarperCollins
April 2007
On Sale: April 10, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0060580453
EAN: 9780060580452
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Non-Fiction
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 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
interweaves these stories with clear-eyed reporting from
Washington and takes us inside the medical industry to
chronicle the decline of America's health care system and
lays bare the consequences any one of us could suffer if we
don't replace it.
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