Jonathan Cohn's book, SICK: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis uses individual stories of personal tragedy to illustrate how the current health system can fail Americans. Speaking at the City Club of Cleveland, Cohn called for some kind of health care coverage for everyone. And, he said, the best way to get the country closer to it is to make it a political issue in the 2008 campaign.
Jonathan Cohn: I will argue why this is unfair that an enlightened society doesn't let this happen to its members and they can argue about why an enlightened society should have so much government control or whatever they want to argue. But let's have that fight - let's have that now and let's get that out there.
Cohn says healthcare as a campaign issue would educate the public on the options being tested in various states and their effectiveness. Lisa Ann Pinkerton, 90.3.