Sick - The Untold Story of America s Health Care Crisis and the People Who

America''s health care system is unraveling, with millions of hard-working people unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Jonathan Cohn traveled across the United States--the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee its citizens access to medical care--to investigate why this crisis is happening and to see firsthand its impact on ordinary Americans. Passionate, powerful, illuminating, and often devastating, Sick chronicles 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Cohn
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2008
• EAN: 9780060580469
• ISBN: 978-0-06-058046-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Sociology, History of Medicine, Social Work, History of Science, Medical profession, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Public health and preventive medicine, Medicolegal issues, Psychiatric and mental disorders, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Sociology / General, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / General, MEDICAL: Mental Health, MEDICAL: Public Health, HEALTH & FITNESS: Health Care Issues, MEDICAL: Health Policy, MEDICAL: History, HEALTH & FITNESS: Mental Health, MEDICAL: Physicians, Coping with / advice about mental health issues