Sick by Jonathan Cohn

Sick by Jonathan Cohn

America's health care system is unraveling, with millions of hard-working people unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Jonathan Cohn traveled across the United States--the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee its citizens access to medical care--to investigate why this crisis is happening and to see firsthand its impact on ordinary Americans. Passionate, powerful, illuminating, and often devastating, Sick chronicles the decline of America's health care system, and lays bare the consequences any one of us could suffer if we don't replace it.

Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he has spent the last decade writing about national politics and their influence on American towns. He is also a senior fellow at Demos and a contributing editor at The American Prospect. Cohn has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Slate, and The Washington Monthly, and has been a media fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation. He is a Harvard graduate who lives with his wife and two children in Ann Arbor, Michigan.