The Healing of America is a book every American needs to read. Period.

Truthfully, I finished the book last night and my head is spinning from it. The sad thing is, I was aware of most of the information in it, I guess having it all in 256 pages is a lot for even forward thinkers to handle. The thing about America that always puzzles me is the amount of "curtains drawn shut." Growing up on a farm and being intimately close to the earth and how things grow and develop, I always had opportunity to be shocked when none of me "city friends" understood where their food came from. And FOOD of all things is something you put directly into your body multiple times a day, How you you not ask? How could you not care? -It seems the everyday things are the things we take most for granted.

Point stated, I never went to doctors growing up. So the whole line-waiting, magical-fee generations and insurance cluster-f*%$ filled me with questions (perhaps rage is the better adjective), I never got answers to, and made me wonder why I was the only non-cow-like agitated(or crazy) person at the dentist! HOW DO THESE PEOPLE PUT UP WITH THIS?! THIS IS NOT NORMAL!

T.R. Reid truly put my mind at ease. It's not normal, it's not right and frankly, it's embarrassing. The author searches the world for health care options, finding tons and on the scale next to America -they are way better. He presents logical cases of countries who have revamped or totally re-hauled their systems, with success. I would hope the Americans who are proactive enough to open this book, start having the same mind-blown, offended feelings in the waiting rooms of American doctors. Truthfully most Americans have plopped down on their lazy boy in Plato's cave, unaware and unquestioning, as to what lies outside of the only thing they have known their whole life. ASK QUESTIONS PEOPLE!

Note: I probably should start giving myself a one week cool-down period before I review books...