Health Care Reform Books:

As Sick As It GetsShocking reality of America’s Health Care, a diagnosis and treatment plan–Rudolph J. Mueller

Health Care Meltdown:Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System–Robert Lebow

Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Health Care–Steffie Woodhandler, Ira Hellander, David U. Himmelstein, David Himmelstein MD

Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine- John Abramson

Critical Conditions: How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine by Donald Barlett & James Steele

Health Against Wealth–HMOs and the breakdown of Medical Trust–George Anders

Bad Medicine–How the American Medical Establishment is ruining our health care system–Lawrence J. O’Brien

Your Money or Your Life-David M. Cutler

American Health Dilemma: Race, Medicine, Health Care in the United States-W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton, H. Jack Geiger

At Risk in American-LuAnn Aday

The Rational Option–for a National Health Program–David U. Himmelstein

Curing the Crisis: Option for America’s Healthcare–Michael D. Reagan

Science in the Private Interest: has the lure of Profits Corrupted Biomedical Research–Sheldon Krimsky

The Truth About Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It-- by Marcia Angell

Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs-Jerry Avorn

The Big Fix: How the pharmaceutical Industry rips off American Consumers–Katharine Greider

The $800 Million Pill: The truth behind the cost of new drugs

Bitter Pills–Stephen Fried

Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing -Dana Beth Weinberg, Suzanne Gordon(Foreword)2004

Epidemic of Care: A Call for Safer, better, and More Accountable Health Care–George C. Haivorson

Health Care in the New MillenniumIan Morrison

Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management –Ronald M. Andersen

The Brave New World of Health Care–Richard D. Lamm

 Market-Driven Healthcare: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America’s Largest Service Industry-Regina E. Herzlinger

Beyond Managed Care: How Consumers and Technology Are Changing the Future of Health Care–Dean C. Coddington-

Health and Health Care 2010— Institute for the FutureHealth and Health Care 2010, Second Edition,

First Do No Harm–Terrence Sullivan and Patricia Baranet

Market and Medicine: the Politics of Health Care reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States-Susan Giaimo

The Goals of Medicine: the forgotten Issues in Health Care Reform (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics Series)–Mark J. Hanson and Daniel Callahan

Health Care In America: Can our Ailing System be Healed–John P. Geyman MD

Medicine in the Twenty First Century–Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform-Robert B. Helms

The Merck Druggernaut: The Inside story of a Pharmaceutical Giant–Fran Hawthorn





Books for Reform

1.HOW TO GET STUPID WHITE MEN OUT OF OFFICE - WILLIAM UPSKI WIMSATT

2.NO MORE PRISONS - WILLIAM UPSKI WIMSATT

3.BOMB THE SUBURBS - WILLIAM UPSKI WIMSATT

4.BUSHWHACKED - LOU DUBOSE AND MOLLY IVINS

5.BETTER TOGETHER - BILL MOYERS

6. THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES - JIM HIGHTOWER

7. IF THE GODS HAD MEANT US TO VOTE, THEY’D HAVE GIVEN US
   CANDIDATES - JIM HIGHTOWER

8. THERE’S NOTHING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD BUT YELLOW 
 STRIPES AND DEAD ARMADILLOS - JIM HIGHTOWER

9. NICKEL AND DIMED; NOT GETTING BY IN AMERICA-BARBARA EHRENREICH

10. THE WORKING POOR: INVISIBLE IN AMERICA -DAVID K. SHIPLER

11. WORSE THAN WATERGATE: THE SECRET PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH - JOHN W. DEAN

12. THE GREAT UNRAVELING: LOSING OUR WAY IN THE NEW CENTURY - PAUL KRUGMAN

13. BIG LIES: THE RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA MACHINE AND HOW IT DISTORTS THE TRUTH -JOE CONASON

14. FIFTY WAYS TO LOVE YOUR COUNTRY: HOW TO FIND YOUR POLITICAL VOICE AND BECOME A CATALYST FOR CHANGE - MOVEON.ORG

15. STOP BUSH IN 2004 - MICHAEL JOHN DOBBINS

16. THE ACTIVIST’S HANDBOOK - RANDY SHAW

17. RUMINATIONS - KRIS PARKER

18. JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP-HOP AND SOME PEOPLE - DANNY HOCH

19. A RIGHT TO BE HOSTILE - AARON McGRUDER

20. DUDE WHERES MY COUNTRY - MICHAEL MOORE

21. STUPID WHITE MEN AND OTHER SORRY EXCUSES FOR THE STATE OF THE UNION - MICHAEL MOORE

22. LIES AND THE LYING LIARS WHO TELL THEM - AL FRANKEN

23. RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT - AL FRANKEN

24. OH, THE THINGS I KNOW - AL FRANKEN

25. SOUL OF A CITIZEN: LIVING WITH CONVICTION IN A CYNICAL TIME - PAUL ROGAT LOEB

26. DECIDING WHAT’S NEWS: A STUDY OF CBS EVENING NEWS, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, NEWSWEEK AND TIME - HERBERT GANS

27. UTOPIA: THE SEARCH FOR THE IDEAL SOCIETY IN THE WESTERN WORLD - ROLAND SCHAER, GREGORY CLAEYS, LYMAN TOWER SARGENT

28. STOP BUSH IN 2004 - MICHAEL JOHN DOBBINS

29. PLAN OF ATTACK - BOB WOODWARD

30. AGAINST ALL ENEMIES: INSIDE AMERICA’S WAR ON TERROR-RICHARD A. CLARKE

31. THE SOUL OF CAPITALISM: OPENING PATHS TO A MORAL ECONOMY - WILLIAM GREIDER

32. ROBBING US BLIND; THE RETURN OF THE BUSH GANG AND THE MUGGING OF AMERICA - STEVE BROUWER (Author) & MATT WUERKER (ILLUSTRATOR)

33. BUSHWACKED; LIFE IN GEORGE W. BUSH’S AMERICAN - LOU DUBOSE AND MOLLY IVINS

34. WORSE THAN WATERGATE: THE SECRET PRESIDENCY OF GEORGE W. BUSH - JOHN W. DEAN

35. THE GREAT UNRAVELING: LOSING OUR WAY IN THE NEW CENTURY - PAUL KRUGMAN

36. THE GREAT UNRAVELING; LOSING OUR WAY IN THE NEW CENTURY- PAUL KRUGMAN


37. FIELD GUIDE TO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY - SARAH ANDERSON, JOHN CAVANAGH-MYTHS TO LIVE BY - JOSEPH CAMPBELL

38. DOING DEMOCRACY-BILL MOYER, JOANN MACALLISTER,MARY LOU FINLEY (CONTRIBUTOR)

39. No Shame In My Game–The working Poor in the Inner City–Katherine S. Newman

40. Declining Fortunes–The Withering of the American Dream–Katherine S. Newman

41. Falling From Grace–Downward Mobility in an Age of Affluence-Katherine S. Newman

42 Lives on the Edge–Single Mothers and their Children in the Other America–Valerie Polakow

43. The Homeless–Christopher Jencks

44. Street Crazy–America’s Mental Health Tragedy–Stephen B. Seager MD