One Nation Uninsured

I don't ususally argue politics much, mostly because I'm awful at it. But one issue that I've wondered about for a while is health insurance, and why it's not simply provided to everyone in a first-world country like America. For this reason, one of the three cheap Kindle books I bought to step outside my comfort zone was Jill Quadagno's One Nation Uninsured: Why the U.S. Has No National Health Insurance. The book was from 2005 so it's all pre-Obamacare, but for the most part it focuses on the multiple attempts to bring national health care to America and how these attempts were all quickly squashed. There's a few sob stories thrown in to give the book some emotional impact, and I can hardly say Quadagno was coming at the topic without bias- she's clearly on the pro-national health care side and is quick to deride its opponents as using baseless scare tactics in claiming that it will turn America into a socialist country. I can't imagine this book would be enough to convince someone to change their position on the topic, but at least I found it a little more interesting than the history of spring training.