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	"Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay For Health Care" [2008] by Arnold Kling While author Kling is described as 'an M.I.T.-trained economist', the real clue to this book's stance against single-payer healthcare is the publisher – the right-wing Libertarian-Republican think tank Cato Institute  — DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK
	"America's Health Care Crisis Solved: Money-Saving Solutions, Coverage For Everyone" [2008] by J. Patrick Rooney & Dan Perrin Co-author Perrin claims credit for backing (lobbying?) all federal health care legislation over the last ten years. Hmmm. So the guys who made the gigantic mess in health care also want further deregulation of the greed-driven 'health care' industry? Bad idea! Wiley & Sons should be ashamed for publishing this bilge.   — DO NOY BUY THIS BOOK
	"The Healthcare Fix: Universal Insurance For All Americans" [2007] by Laurence J. Kotlikoff M.I.T. Press 8x5½ hardcover [10/2007] for $12.21
	"Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths & Fixing Our Failing System" [orig 2003, rev 2007] by Robert H. LeBow MD, revised & updated by C. Rocky White MD Alan C. Hood & Co. 9x6 pb [7/2007] for $10.20
	"Who Killed Health Care?: America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - and The Consumer-Driven Cure" [2007] by Regina Herzlinger McGraw-Hill 9x6¼ hardcover [6/2007] for $16.47
	”Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis - and The People Who Pay The Price” [2007] by Jonathan Cohn Harper Perennial 8x5¼ pb [5/2008] for $10.17   HarperCollins 9x6 hardcover [4/2007] for $17.13
	"How Doctors Think" [2007] by Jerome Groopman, MD Mariner Books 8&frac4x5½ pb [3/2008] for $10.85   Houghton Mifflin 9x6 hardcover [3/2007] for $15.60
	”The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care” [2006] by David Gratzer "A must read for all students of health care policy." — Milton Friedman Encounter Books 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $17.13
	"One Nation, Uninsured: Why The U.S. Has No National Health Insurance" [2005] by Jill Quadagno Oxford Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/2006] for $10.85 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2005] out of print/used
	"Uninsured In America: Life and Death In The Land of Opportunity" [2005] by Susan Starr Sered & Rushika Fernandopulle MD Univ CA Press 9x5 pb [10/2006] for $16.15 Univ CA Press hardcover [4/2006] out of print/many used
	"Critical Condition: How Health Care In America Became Big Business - and Bad Medicine" [2004] by Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele Broadway Books 7¾x5¼ pb [10/2005] for $10.17 Doubleday 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2004] out of print/used
	”Lives At Risk: Single-Payer National Health Insurance Around The World” [2004] by John C. Goodman, Gerald L. Musgrave & Devon M. Herrick Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 pb [8/2004] for $26.95 Rowman & Littlefield 9x6 hardcover [8/2004] for $85.00
	"The Great Influenza: The Story of The Deadliest Pandemic In History" [2004] New York Times bestseller by John M. Barry Penguin 8½x5½ pb [10/2005] for $11.56 Viking 9x6½ hardcover [2/2004] for $29.95 the paperback has an Afterword on avian flu
	"America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918" [1997] by Alfred W. Crosby listed in Los Angeles Times 100 Most Important Books of 1997 Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [7/2003] for $22.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [7/2003] for $64.40
	"The Thanatos Syndrome: A Novel" [1987] by Walker Percy A psychiatrist is released from minimum security prison and returns home to discover that a fellow psychiatrist is masterminding an unauthorized scheme to eradicate social ills by manipulating cortical functions through surreptitious doses of 'heavy sodium' in the local water supply. Picador 8x5½ pb [9/99] for $10.20 Ivy Books mass pb [3/88] out of print/many used FS&G hardcover [4/87] out of print/many used FS&G hardcover [4/87] out of print/many used
	"The Doctor's Case Against The Pill" [1969 classic] by Barbara Seaman [1935-2008] Hunter House 8½x5½ pb [7/95] out of print/used Doubleday mass pb [1/80] out of print/used

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