MUST READ OF THE DAY. In the latest issue of The Washington Monthly (via Kevin Drum), Phillip Longman provides a brilliant critique of the health-coverage-centric worldview that the also talented Jonathan Cohn lays out in his new book, Sick. Though Longman barely reviews Cohn's book, he's written what is easily one of the most important health care reform essays I've ever come across, and actually made me want to read Cohn's book, as well as his own just-released volume, Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours -- and I've tended to avoid health care books in recent years. Just read the whole thing -- it's fantastic. Finally, someone is advocating for health care reforms that are about actually improving the health of Americans and their experience of medicine (for a typical horror story from the insured, read this Michael Lewis piece on trying to defend his infant son from the people sent to care for him), instead of just their ability to pay for care.
--Garance Franke-Ruta
