Two books I’ve read recently provide pretty good perspective on the health care debate — “Nudge,” by Obama advisor Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler and “Better,” by Atul Gawande. Gawande, a New Yorker staff writer, wrote the oft-cited piece about the cost of health care in McAllen, Texas, where Medicaid reimbursements are the highest in the nation but which don’t make the populace any healthier. Both are worth a read because they provide insights on what some of the country’s smartest thinkers think about health care, the insurance markets, and how people respond to them. Enjoy them while BookEnds decides what the next book club choice will be.
I am reading as much as I can about the health care crisis, one of the most critical issues of our time and an issue one must take a moral stand on as an American. I look forward to reading your recommended book. I have recently finished “Money-Driven Medicine, The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, which was illuminating. I also recommend a small book “10 Excellent Reasons For National Health Care”. The book is a compilation of physician’s reasoning behind a single payer system. It is very convincing and makes alot of sense to me. The author, Maggie Mahar, recently appeared on Bill moyers Journal on PBS with more disturbing facts, a wake up call to all Americans.
Comment by Christina Haskin — August 28th, 2009 @ 10:54 pm