Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘America’s Bitter Pill’

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2015

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, Steven Brill discusses “America’s Bitter Pill”; Alexandra Alter has news from the publishing world; Heidi Julavits talks about Rachel Cusk’s “Outline”; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Just how broken is our healthcare system, Stephen Rill joins us to talk about his latest
0:07.0	book, America's bitter pill.
0:09.0	The single most frequent, obvious consumer communication we get is an insurance company's
0:15.0	explanation of benefits.
0:16.5	The CEO of the largest, most successful insurance company in America can't explain it.
0:21.4	Why would anyone expect that any of the rest of us can figure it out?
0:24.4	What does it mean to blur the line between autobiography and fiction?
0:28.0	Eddie Julevitz will tell us about her review of Rachel Cusk's new novel Outline.
0:32.4	It would both feel like the most incredible compliment to come under her gaze or you feel
0:36.5	like you would learn something about yourself that no one else could tell you because this
0:40.1	person is almost like talking to a psychic, you know?
0:43.4	Alexander Altair will be here with notes from the publishing world and Greg Cole's Has
0:47.2	Best Ellon News.
0:48.6	This is Inside the Nairitan's Book Review.
0:50.3	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:59.0	Stephen Rill joins me now.
1:01.9	He is the author of America's bitter pill, money, politics, backroom deals and the fight
1:07.2	to fix our broken healthcare system.
1:09.6	Hi, Steve.
1:10.6	Hi, Pamela.
1:11.6	This book grew out of a story you did for time, magazine.
1:16.0	When did that story come out?
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