Annotated Bibliography on Healthcare Reform
Annotated Bibliography on Healthcare Reform
Marcia Angell, The Truth About the Drug Companies: How they Deceive Us and What We Can Do About It (New York: Random House, 2004).
Many Americans have wondered why prescription drugs have become so expensive while advertising for those drugs seems to grow exponentially. Former New England Journal of Medicine Editor Marcia Angell has some answers. The pharmaceutical industry, according to Angell, is fraught with corruption and doing a disservice to customers, the federal government, and to the medical establishment itself.
Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine (New York: Double Day, 2004).
Bestselling investigative journalists Bartlett and Steele (America: What Went Wrong?) deliver a devastating indictment, supported by excellent research, of a health-care system that they say is failing to provide first-rate services to its citizens, 44 million of whom are without insurance. According to these Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, now with “Time” magazine, the U.S. compares poorly with other Westernized nations in delivering quality care and a healthy life expectancy, and preventing infant mortality.
John Geyman, M.D., Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance (New York: Common Courage Press, 2004).
As a practitioner, teacher and medical leader, Geyman has first-hand experience with the health care system in the U.S. In this mixture of real life stories and analysis, the author brings readers close up to the perils faced by uninsured Americans.
“A Commitment to All Generations” U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, March, 1999
The statement, “A Commitment to All Generations: Social Security and the Common Good” is an updating of the 1983 “Statement on Social Security.”
Trinity Health, “Transforming Healthcare in America: Essential Elements of Systemic Healthcare Reform,” April 2007,
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