Take the Profit Out of Health Insurance

This is the only solution to our health care problems here. ALL of the successful health care programs in other countries have non-profit insurance, many of which are private companies (200 of them in Germany). The French and German models might not appeal to insurance companies, but it will take the red-tape out of health care and still allow doctors to make a good enough living.

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T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America'

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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.

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