T.R. Reid

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T.R. Reid is an American foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and author of nine books, currently working on a tenth entitled, "We're Number 37!" Number 37 being in reference to the United States' health care ranking. He is also a frequent guest on NPR's Morning Edition. He is married to attorney Margaret M. McMahon with whom he has three children. Reid, a Classics major at Princeton University served as a naval officer, taught and held various positions before working for the Post.^[1]

His 2008 Frontline documentary, Sick Around the World, under the premise that the US health care system is a failure,^[2] takes a look at the national health care systems of five wealthy countries around the world. The first two countries visited are the U.K. and Japan, both places where Reid has lived while serving as the Washington Post bureau chief^[1] and has had doctors.^[3] They are followed by Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland.