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GUEST: Jonathan Cohn, author of “Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price,” Senior Editor at The New Republic, contributing editor at The American Prospect, and a senior fellow at the think-tank, Demos

Writer and reporter Jonathan Cohn has written a new book detailing the dire health care crisis in the United States. “Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price” looks at American health care through the experiences of ordinary people. Cohn traveled the country listening to the stories of people struggling with health care. In a tiny village in the Catskills mountains, a man whose job stopped providing health insurance watched his wife die of cancer. In a booming suburb outside Austin, Texas, a mother battled with an insurance company to get therapy for her disabled son. And in the middle of prairie heartland, a retiree sold his house to help pay for the medications that keep him and his wife alive. It’s a story that’s becoming all too familiar and all too typical in the US, the only country in the industrialized world that does not guarantee health care for its citizens. Cohn combines these personal stories with a history of the health insurance industry and the politics that have shaped it.

Jonathan Cohn will be discussing his book, Sick this Tuesday, May 15, 2007 at 5:30 pm at the California Endowment’s Center for Healthy Communities, Yosemite Hall, 1000 North Alameda St. in Los Angeles. Click here to RSVP for this free event:
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Visit www.sickthebook.com for more information.