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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. Reprint.
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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.
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