Is health care any better in other countries?

Best-selling author T.R. Reid toured the globe to write "The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care." He joins MIDDAY to discuss what he learned.

Guests

• T.R. Reid: Longtime correspondent for the Washington Post and former bureau chief in Tokyo and London. Commentator for National Public Radio. Author of many best-selling books, including "The United States of Europe." Health policy fellow of the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Resources

• T.R. Reid's "5 myths" about health care elsewhere
• T.R. Reid's PBS "Sick Around the World" documentary series