I got this book when the author came on NPR to talk about it. I was confused about the health care reform and they made it sound like this book explained it in layman's terms. Well, it set on my shelf for a while...but I just read it, and am disappointed.
I don't consider myself to be affiliated with one party or the other (although I do lean more liberally than conservatively) but this book read very conservative.
At the time this book came out, I'm sure many of it's doomsday prophesies seemed credible but now with 09' almost over, it feels a little, heavy.
I'll admit that I didn't read all of it. I don't consider it an informative nonfiction if I'm laughing. (Unless its about the history of jokes or something. Though I don't think I would ever read a book called the history of jokes. Anyway) but before I started skimming, the stuff I did read felt more sensational than truthful.
There are, of course, statistics and they do have a point about the health care reform in regards to us not having enough doctors and nurses to go around, but I can't help thinking they wrote this book just hoping the world would fall apart so they could say 'I told you so!'
Anyway I gave it one star, whoever PBS's (can I make that a verb?) this from me can disagree but I'm warning you anyway.
I don't consider myself to be affiliated with one party or the other (although I do lean more liberally than conservatively) but this book read very conservative.
At the time this book came out, I'm sure many of it's doomsday prophesies seemed credible but now with 09' almost over, it feels a little, heavy.
I'll admit that I didn't read all of it. I don't consider it an informative nonfiction if I'm laughing. (Unless its about the history of jokes or something. Though I don't think I would ever read a book called the history of jokes. Anyway) but before I started skimming, the stuff I did read felt more sensational than truthful.
There are, of course, statistics and they do have a point about the health care reform in regards to us not having enough doctors and nurses to go around, but I can't help thinking they wrote this book just hoping the world would fall apart so they could say 'I told you so!'
Anyway I gave it one star, whoever PBS's (can I make that a verb?) this from me can disagree but I'm warning you anyway.
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