Wonder what it's like to live and work in a country where health care is a right not a privilege? Wonder how every other industrialized nation achieves better, cheaper, fairer health care? AMSA's National Book Discussion is hosting T.R. Reid on February 25, 2010. He has traveled the world observing different health care models.

When the World Health Organization rated the national health care systems of 191 countries in terms of 'fairness,' the United States ranked fifty-fourth. That put us slightly ahead of Chad and Rwanda but just behind Bangladesh and the Maldives. How is it that all the other industrialized democracies provide health care for everyone at a reasonable cost, something the United States has never managed to do? In The Healing of America (The Penguin Press 2009), New York Times bestselling author T.R. Reid shows how they do it, bringing to bear his talent for explaining complex issues in a clear, engaging way.

Reid has become one of the nation’s best-known correspondents through his coverage of global affairs for The Washington Post, his books and documentary films, and his light-hearted commentaries on National Public Radio. Reid majored in Classics at Princeton University, and served as a naval officer, a teacher, and various other jobs. At the Washington Post, he covered Congress and four presidential campaigns. He also served as the paper’s bureau chief in Tokyo and in London.

Read Chapter One “A Quest for Two Cures” at http://bit.ly/cdQR8e