Volume 19, Number 7 · November 2, 1972
I'm Sorry, the Doctor Is Busy Making Money
By Robert Bazell
In Critical Condition: The Crisis in America's Health Care
by Edward Kennedy
Simon and Schuster, 252 pp., $6.95
National Health Care: Issues and Problems in Socialized Medicine
edited by Ray Elling
Aldine, 287 pp., $3.95 (paper)
The Biological Imperatives: Health, Politics, and Human Survival
by Allan Chase
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 399 pp., $8.95
Away with All Pests: An English Surgeon in People's China, 1954-1969
by Dr. Joshua S. Horn
Monthly Review, 192 pp., $2.45 (paper)
'I am horrified,' Senator Kennedy writes, 'that we in America have created a health care system that can be so callous to human suffering, so intent on high salaries and profits, and so unconcerned for the needs of our people.' His book In Critical Condition is largely excerpts from the testimony taken by his Subcommittee on Health as it toured the country to promote the Kennedy-Griffiths Health Security Act, the most comprehensive of the several health insurance bills now before Congress, and the one supported by Senator McGovern (see box on next page).
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