The American Health Care Paradox, by Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor

This may be one of the three most important books your member of Congress will probably never read.

The first is journalist T. R. Reid’s The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (2009). A couple of hours with this book and Republican legislators might finally discover that most other economically advanced nations have systems that cost less than America’s, give better results and (shocker!) aren’t socialist.

The second is David Goldhill’s Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It (2013). Goldhill, who is both a CEO and a Democrat, offers a health-care proposal combining free-market business principles, personal responsibility and concern for the common good. A couple of hours with this book and Democratic legislators might realize that although the U.S. health-care system desperately needs fixing, Obama­care may not be the solution.