Timothy Snyder’s book Our Malady Lessons in LIberty From A Hospital Diary

Dr. Timothy Snyder – a renowned scholar of comparative societies, with emphasis on systems of oppression and humanity’s quest for freedom – suffered a near-death health crisis that revealed to him America’s failed health care system and the weak foundation of freedom in American society. For him, the absence of universal, single payer health care in America, available to all as a human right elsewhere, represents an ongoing crisis of freedom in America, one that distinguishes this society among post-industrial, affluent societies, as failing its people by commercializing health care. According to Snyder, America’s “commercial health care system” – along with other social policies the US lacks that other post-industrial societies have –
impedes a free life – impedes liberty – in the US. It results in unfreedom

With reference to Snyder’s Our Malady, summarize, explain and assess his argument, made by organizing his thoughts into 4 major “lessons” that Snyder draws from his health crisis, and that he explains in his book. What are his solutions to this crisis?

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