health insurance

Contains three pairs of essays that offer opposing opinions on issues related to universal health care, debating whether health care in the United States is a basic human right or commodity, the pros and cons of a national single-payer system, and how to manage systems while insuring quality.

Discusses what has gone wrong with the American way of health to create the crisis in which the author feels the U.S. is embroiled, and offers a solution that calls for a completely new culture of health and medicine.

Examines the debate over whether the federal government should become involved in providing health care for U.S. citizens, looking at what is wrong with the system, and providing a prognosis for the future.

Presents differing viewpoints on the issues of health care legislation.