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Falling Through the Safety Net: Americans Without Health Insurance
By John Geyman. 222 pp. Monroe, Me., Common Courage Press, 2005. $29.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). ISBN 1-56751-255-0 (cloth); 1-56751-254-2 (paper).

Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity
By Susan Starr Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle. 247 pp. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005. $24.95. ISBN 0-520-24442-7.

These two books document the consequences of the lack of universal coverage for health care in the United States and then recommend national health insurance. Each book is readable and perceptive and offers fresh information and helpful syntheses of familiar data. Even experts in health policy will find news in these books.

Both books are vague, however, about how to address the fundamental problem of making policy for access to care, which entails mobilizing the political will to achieve substantial reform. The authors of these books, like many before them, imagine . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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