Introduction: The Failure of "Free Market" Healthcare -- Rich Country, Poor Care -- Increasing Inequality: The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Sick -- The Inefficiencies of Private Healthcare: Rationing in the Midst of Plenty -- Profit-Driven Managed Care: The Disease, Not the Cure -- Medicare HMOs: Tax-Funded Profiteering -- The HMO Scam: Rich Investors, Poor Care -- Corporate Care: Inferior Quality, Inflated Prices -- Thinking Clearly on Drugs: Pharmaceutical Profiteering -- Solutions are at Hand: Other Nations Do Better -- Northern Light: Canada's Experience with National Health Insurance -- A National Health Program and American Culture: Do They Mesh? -- A National Health Program for the United States.