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It's a good read. Depressing, but good.
From the book jacket:
UNINSURED IN AMERICA goes beyond the headlines to understand the experiences of the more than 40 million Americans who are without health insurance. The vivid and moving stories told in the book demonstrate that the current structure of our health care system brings us all potentially one illness, one family crisis, one pink slip away from sliding into a lethal vortex of ill health, medical debt, and marginal employability. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men and woman and with dozens of medical providers, policy makers, and advocates from around the nation, this book shows that all too often, the consequences of being uninsured involve unnecessary deaths, untreated disease, slipshod care for chronic illness, medical debt, bankruptcy, and the need to resort to alcohol in lieu of effective medical management of pain.
Sered and Fernandopulle argue that our current system creates “death spirals” in which employment disruptions can lead to the loss of health coverage, which can in turn lead to health problems that make the uninsured less ablt to work. As the composition of the job market continues to shift, and fewer long-term jobs with health benefits are available, the health care system is leading to fundamental structural changes in American society. UNINSURED IN AMERICA convincingly presents a disturbing development—that the link between health insurance and employment is creating a new caste of the ill, infirm, and marginally employed.”
Uninsured in America : life and death in the land of opportunity by Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle.
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2005.
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