the healing of america a global quest for better

In the Bismarck countries, Reid was given the widest array of options-not only the choice of having the surgery, which none of the doctors strongly recommended, but also the options of spa treatments, physical therapy, and steroid injections.

Great Britain’s National Health Service is based on the Beveridge model, and Canada has a National Health Insurance model. France, Germany, and Japan operate their health care systems according to the Bismarck model with some variations, including more insurance fund options in some countries than in others. During these visits, he examined the models of health care offered in each country.

Reid next set out to other countries-France, Germany, Japan, Great Britain, and Canada-where he consulted with doctors. Reid first visited an American doctor who recommended a total shoulder arthroplasty-an invasive surgery that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars and that might not have increased the range of motion in Reid’s shoulder. For all the scope of his research and his ability to mint neat rebuttals to the common American misconception that universal health care is “socialized” medicine, Reid neglects to address the elephant in the room: just how are we to sell these changes to the mighty providers and insurers? (Sept.Reid used the travel opportunities that his work offered to travel the world in search of the best solution for the problem of his stiff shoulder. Seeking treatment for the flareup of an old shoulder injury, he visits doctors in the U.S., France, Germany, Japan and England-with a stint in an Ayurvedic clinic in India-in a quest for treatment that dovetails with his search for a “cure” for America's health-care crisis, a narrative device that sometimes feels contrived, but allows him valuable firsthand experience. not only spends more money on health care than any other nation but also leaves 45 million residents uninsured, allowing about 22,000 to die from easily treatable diseases. Neither financial prudence nor concern for the commonweal explains the American position, according to Reid, whose findings divulge that the U.S. remains the only first world nation to refuse its citizens universal health care. ) explores health-care systems around the world in an effort to understand why the U.S. Correspondent Reid ( The United States of Europe

The healing of america a global quest for better