Jonathan Cohn Interview

Jonathan Cohn, senior editor at The New Republic, discusses his book Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crises – and the People who Pay the Price. Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical treatment for themselves and their families — unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Some of these people end up losing money. Others end up losing something even more valuable: their health or even their lives. Cohn traveled across the United States — the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship — to investigate why this crisis is happening and to see firsthand its impact on ordinary Americans. Recorded May 22, 2007