"A short history of health care, Jonathan Cohn shows us how we got here"
Slate
March 13, 2007
By Timothy Noah

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Each chapter of Cohn's book is devoted to one or two patient narratives that illuminate a particular dysfunction of the present medical system, and the chapters are arranged in such a way that the dysfunctions appear more or less in the order in which they first became significant national problems.