T.R. Reid did a terrific job setting the tone and context for our Symposium and this is strongly captured in our evaluations including such phrases as "Best presenter ever".
~ New England Regional Rural Health RoundTable
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The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
In this book, Reid goes to ten countries to find out why all the other industrialized democracies manage to provide high-quality universal health care but still spend half as much as we do. Reid explains how they do it, and why they do it.
One key lesson is that most foreign countries do not use socialized medicine. Japan has 99 percent private hospitals and 5,000 health insurance companies -- but provides universal coverage and excellent care for less than half what we spend per capita. |
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The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
Now comprising 25 nations and 450 million citizens, the EU has more people, more wealth, and more votes on every international body than the United States. It eschews military force but offers guaranteed health care and free university educations. And the new “United States of Europe” is determined to be a superpower. Tracing the EU's emergence from the ruins of World War II and its influence everywhere from international courts to supermarket shelves, T. R. Reid explores the challenge it poses to American political and economic supremacy. |
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