Monday, August 24, 2009

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.

This is today's Fresh Air on NPR, streaming live right now.

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

Comments (23)

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.

Monday's Show Full Rundown >

No comments: