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Web Sites:
Videos:
An excellent and entertaining description of health care systems in Great Britain, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland was presented on the PBS series, Frontline. The series was produced by the Washington Post correspondent TR Reid. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
Books:
Tom Daschle, Critical: What We Can Do About The Health-Care Crisis. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press. 2008.
Arnold S. Relman, A Second Opinion: Rescuing America’s Health Care. (A Century Foundation Book. www.publicaffairsbooks.com 2007). This is the book to read if you read no other on health care reform. Dr. Relman’s credentials are impeccable. (check out his biography on the Canadian Health Coalition web site.) He’s studied the health care problem for many years. The result, this book, proposes an original, effective solution to the twin problems of soaring health care cost and the rising number of uninsured and underinsured.
David M. Cutler, Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America’s Health Care System (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Jonathan Cohn, Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis and the People who Pay the Price. (Harper Collins, 2007)
Ezekiel Emanuel. Healthcare. Guaranteed. A Simple, Secure Solution for America. (PublicAffairs, 2008)
Journals:
Health Affairs: The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere. PO Box 148, Congers, NY 10920-0148
The pre-eminent policy journal. Subscription may be required for access to some of its articles that are hyperlinked on this site. In addition to policy articles in print, it also publishes some articles on line, and it has an active health policy blog.
All three are primarily vehicles for technical articles for physicians, but the New England Journal and the Annals, and less often, the Journal of the AMA, occasionally publish articles that deal with health care policy.
Articles:
U. S. Census Bureau. "Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2007" From Kaiser EDU.org
New England Journal of Medicine:
Daily or Weekly Web Alerts
The Kaiser Family Foundation. (daily). Access to the daily health policy report is at the bottom of this web page. Also a source for a summary of health policy blogs.
Slide Collections:
RSS Feeds:
Viewpoints: The Health Care Debate, Health08.org, a division of The Kaiser Family Foundation, has collected interviews with leaders of organizations representing health care providers, insurers, policymakers, employers, labor unions and consumers sharing their views on shortcomings in the nation's health care system and how it could be improved. It's a pretty remarkable set of interviews with individuals representing just about every viewpoint that's been expressed so far.
Revised January 17, 2009
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