 T.R. Reid
NPR Correspondent
Health Policy Fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation
Author, The United States of Europe and
The Healing of America. A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care |
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The Healing of America. A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
In this presentation, T.R. Reid examines why other countries have better, fairer, and cheaper health care than the USA. According to the World Health Organization, the U.S, the richest country in the world ranks 37th overall on health care cost, quality, and coverage. After traveling the world while researching his forthcoming book, T.R. offers lessons from other countries that will help us fix our rotten health care system. 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. Another lesson is that all the proposals to date from our politicians are too timid; they are tinkering at the margins, when we ought to be revamping the system head to toe.
International Reporting
T. R. Reid has become one of America's best-known correspondents. He has reported from around the world for The Washington Post, National Public Radio, and the PBS network. His best-selling books have covered topics ranging from East Asia's "social miracle" to the invention of the microchip. His forthcoming book and PBS documentary will study how other wealthy countries manage medical care, and what the U.S. can learn from others to fix our ailing health care system.
Europe and Globalization
T. R. Reid explores the challenge the EU poses to American political and economic supremacy. Now comprising 27 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,
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