I'm surprised to not find Dr. Arnold Relman's book, "A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care" on this list. Dr. Relman makes an excellent case for a single-payer health care system and points out how the commercialization of medicine and conflicts of interests undermining the medical profession have contributed to the high cost and relatively poor quality of health care in the United States. I recommend this book to anyone interested in health care reform.