Book · 2023
We've Got You Covered
A proposal to replace America's patchwork insurance system with automatic, free basic coverage for everyone, while preserving the option to buy supplemental coverage.
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Books
Recommended Reading
Six books that help frame the problem, compare alternative systems and explore paths toward a more coherent American healthcare system.
Book · 2020
Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?
A comparative tour of the U.S. and ten other healthcare systems, examining what each gets right, what each gets wrong, and what America can learn from them.
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Book · 2019
The Price We Pay
An examination of pricing, waste and dysfunction in American healthcare, with a focus on transparency, market failures and practical reforms.
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Book · 2019
Priced Out
Reinhardt explains why American healthcare costs so much more than healthcare in other advanced countries, and argues that the problem is ultimately about both economics and the ethical choices Americans make about who pays for care.
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Book · 2017
An American Sickness
An examination of how the U.S. healthcare system became a highly profitable industry, why prices rose so dramatically, and how the incentives of hospitals, insurers, drug companies and other participants can work against patients.
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Book · 2015
America's Bitter Pill
A deeply reported account of the Affordable Care Act and the political and economic forces that shaped — and continue to shape — America's healthcare system.
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Watch & Listen
Selected videos that make the problems in American healthcare understandable, concrete and difficult to ignore.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel · 2020 · 75 min
Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?
Emanuel compares major healthcare systems around the world—how they cover people, pay providers and control costs—and draws lessons for U.S. healthcare reform.
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Amy Finkelstein · 2023 · 72 min
We’ve Got You Covered
Finkelstein explains the case for automatic, free basic healthcare for every American, supplemented by optional private insurance—a proposal built from first principles rather than the current patchwork system.
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John Oliver · 2026 · 34 min
UnitedHealthcare & UnitedHealth Group
A deep dive into UnitedHealth Group, including claim denials, prior authorization, algorithms and the incentives created by one of America's largest healthcare companies.
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John Oliver · 2025 · 30 min
Medicare Advantage
Oliver examines Medicare Advantage and the tensions created when publicly financed Medicare benefits are administered through private insurance companies.
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Adam Ruins Everything · 2017 · 5 min
Why Hospitals Are So Expensive
A concise, accessible explanation of the opaque pricing and incentives that help make American hospital care so expensive.
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Jimmy Kimmel · 2017 · 13 min
Jimmy Kimmel on His Son & Healthcare
Kimmel's personal account of his newborn son's heart surgery became a widely watched argument that access to lifesaving healthcare should not depend on a family's income or a child's pre-existing condition.
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