By T. R. Reid
"A timely survey filled with important lessons for the United States of how other nations have created systems that provide universal health care for their citizens.Washington Post correspondent and NPR commentator Reid... sees the health-care issue as a moral question to which all other technologically developed countries have responded well, creating affordable, effective systems. The author outlines four basic models.... The author provides a capsule history of each system, discusses its drawbacks as well as benefits and destroys some popular myths about so-called socialized medicine. Though he offers many image-shattering statistics that reveal how poorly the United States stacks up against other countries, the author's message is essentially optimistic: We can learn from the experience of other countries and use that knowledge to create a more efficient and humane system.A reasoned, well-balanced, highly readable account, especially welcome as the national debate over health care gets underway. "
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