Books & Resources

Nonfiction

Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans, by Wendell Potter. A fantastic first-person account of a PR employee for a major health insurance corporation who defected after becoming nauseated with what he was doing. Full of details about the industry's involvement in tanking various attempts to pass health reform in this country.

Fiction

So Much for That by Lionel Shriver. The story of a man saving up for his retirement get-away, interrupted by the reality of his wife's cancer and the spiraling out of control that happens when a million dollars is not enough to pay for a family's healthcare.