“If anyone can come to my office–if it’s not expensive to see me–then they won’t respect my degree and how much work I’ve done. In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. Reid is a longtime correspondent for The Washington Post and former chief of its Tokyo and London bureaus as well as a commentator for National Public.

After the other students talked about how they would definitely want to work in systems where insurance companies couldn’t override doctors, etc., one student said she was against affordable healthcare. One smart, tightly-wound student managed to shock me, though. Note Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. I didn’t know much about how the rest of the world worked when I was their age, but I thought they might know more about their field–and how fucked up it is. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care. I was surprised when my 104F students told me that Reid’s book surprised them. Reid takes his own imperfect body around the world to look at how other developed nations handle care.Īlong the way, he addresses common American misconceptions about the rest of the world, about too-long wait times, rationed care, etc. We let people die of manageable diseases. My global quest demonstrated that Americas approach to health care is unique in the world for a good reason: No other country would dream of doing things the. We spend more than anyone else, but we’re definitely not healthier. Reid lays out the problems with American healthcare, which is fundamentally about our paradox. As I’ve mentioned before, I do extra credit book clubs with my students.Īfter one book club, one of my students recommended The Healing of America, so I made it our book for the next quarter. Full Book Name:The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care Author Name:T.R.

The Healing of America by T.R. Reid