T.R. Reid

T. R. Reid

Reid at Miller Center in2011
Born Thomas Roy Reid III
1944 (age 71–72)
baltimore, md
Education Princeton University, BA, 1966; Geo. Washington Univ Law School, J.D., 1972
Alma mater Princeton University
Occupation Journalist
Documentary film correspondent, author
Employer The Washington Post
Known for NPR Morning Edition frequent guest
Notable work  • The Healing of America
 • The Chip

T. R. Reid (born Thomas Roy Reid III in 1944)[1] is an American reporter, documentary film correspondent, and author. He is also a frequent guest on National Public Radio (NPR)'s Morning Edition. Reid currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

Career

Reid, a Classics major at Princeton University, served as a naval officer, taught, and held various positions before working for The Washington Post.[2] At the Post, he covered congress and four Presidential election campaigns, and was chief of the Post's London and Tokyo bureaus.[3] He has also taught at Princeton and the University of Michigan. His experiences in Japan led him to write Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West, which argued that Confucian values of family devotion, education, and long-term relations, which still permeate East Asian societies, contributed to their social stability.[4] He is now the Post's Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief. A 2007 Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow in health,[5] he is a member of the board of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless and the University of Colorado Medical School.

Reid won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship[6] in 1982 writing about the U.S. semiconductor industry.

Frontline documentaries on health care

His 2008 documentary for the U.S. television series Frontline, Sick Around the World, looked at the comprehensive health care systems of five developed economies from around the world. The first two countries visited were the United Kingdom and Japan, where he had previously lived, worked, and also received medical care.[7] They were followed by Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland.[8]

Frontline asked Reid to follow up with a companion documentary, Sick Around America, which aired March 31, 2009, on PBS. However, Reid parted company with PBS before the film was finished[9] when his conclusion, quoted by Russell Mokhiber in CounterPunch that "You can't allow a profit to be made on the basic package of health insurance," was omitted from the program.[10] Instead, Reid argued that the film came off as supporting mandated private-insurance coverage.[9] Reid was quoted as saying "...mandating for-profit insurance is not the lesson from other countries in the world. I said I'm not going to be in a film that contradicts my previous film and my book." PBS responded to these criticisms, stating that "Frontline takes a strongly different view of the characterization of its editorial disagreement with T. R. Reid as presented by Reid and Russell Mokhiber."[11] It argued that Reid had misrepresented the role of a key respondent in the film, the extent of Reid's role in making the film, and the balance PBS had sought to present. Reid used his right of reply to challenge PBS's characterization of their and his own positions.[11]

His investigations into health care resulted in his New York Times bestselling[12] book The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care.

  In 2015, Reid became Chairman of the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care. In that role, he served as a lead spokesman in the campaign for Amendment 69, an initiative on the Colorado ballot in November, 2016, that would create a state-based health plan-- "ColoradoCare"—to cover all Colorado residents. "When Colorado passes ColoradoCare,' he said, "we will demonstrate that universal coverage can work. And then Colorado will lead our great nation to a destination we should have achieved long ago; High-quality health care, at reasonable cost, for every American."
  Reid also served on the board of Princeton University, the Health Research and Education Trust, and the Japan-America Society of Colorado. He is vice-chairman of the board of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. 
  T. R. Reid's next book, on taxes around the world, will be published on April 15, 2017.

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Global Focus: TALK ABOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM". The Washington Post. June 30, 1999. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
  2. ↑ "Featured Profile: T. R. Reid, Correspondent". Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
  3. ↑ "T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America'". Fresh Air. National Public Radio. August 24, 2009.
  4. ↑ George, Don (April 21, 1999). "Expatriates on Japan". Salon.com.
  5. ↑ "Previous Fellows and Their Work". Kaiser Family Foundation.
  6. ↑ Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship
  7. ↑ "Q&A with correspondent T.R. Reid". PBS.
  8. ↑ Hale, Mike (2008-04-15). "Lower Insurance Premiums and Better Care: Un-American Health Delivery". The New York Times.
  9. 1 2 "When the producer's take diverges from the reporter's". Current. April 27, 2009.
  10. ↑ Mokhiber, Russell (2009-04-02). "Something Is Rotten at PBS". CounterPunch.
  11. 1 2 "Editor's Response". PBS. March 31, 2009.
  12. ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (September 3, 2009). "Best Sellers: Hardcover Nonfiction". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-08.
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