For all the talk about healthcare in other countries, few have real details. T.R. Reid spent 3 years travelling to various countries, interviewing doctors, etc. Here is an interview with him. I was quite surprised!
Here is a link to listen to the broadcast. He was interviewed for Fresh Air, a program that takes on all sorts of topics (they interviewed one of the atomic bomb droppers one week and then talked about cats the next)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =112172939
T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America'(34) (59)
Journalist and author T.R. Reid, a foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, set out on a global tour of hospitals and doctors' offices, all in the hopes of understanding how other industrialized nations provide affordable, effective universal health care. The result: his book The Healing of America.
