what truly sets Neil Davis' Mired in the Health Care Morass apart from other commentaries on the United States health care system is the perspective of a consumer. He was driven to write this book from his actual experience of navigating through the tangled web of health care on behalf of his daughter, who was an uninsured lung cancer patient.

Davis' research is extensive, and his ability to dissect the unreasonably complex health care process is unrivaled. Due to the complexity of the process his book has a great number of charts and diagrams that do wonders to help the reader make sense of it all.

Davis illustrates the problems of the current health care system, from the pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists to the private insurance companies. His analysis of the universal health care systems in other Western nations discredits the false claims and fear-mongering perpetuated by the right-wing that a single-payer system would be more expensive and less efficient.

The learning I received about health care from Mired in the Health Care Morass would have taken months of research if I were to try to have done it on my own.

Mired in the Health Care Morass should be required reading for our elected officials and every American that knows that our health care system is broken and something must be done about it.