Nonprofit Healthcare: A Moral Responsibility? - T.R. Reid

Journalist T.R. Reid argues that one of the best models of modern health care reform took place in Switzerland. "Switzerland had American-style, for-profit insurance until 1994," he explains, when the healthcare payment system became non-profit.

T.R. Reid talks about The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care.

NY Times-bestselling author Reid shows how other industrialized democracies have done something the U.S. can't seem to do: provide healthcare for everybody at a reasonable cost. - Commonwealth Club of California

T.R. Reid is a former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post, a commentator for National Public Radio and the author of nine books, including three in Japanese. His 10th book, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, was published by Penguin Press in the summer of 2009.