http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/06/01/090601fa_fact_gawande
The above link will take you to a very good article about our health care crisis that appeared in the New Yorker magazine. I got this recommendation from Scott Burns' column in the Dallas Morning News.
About the author. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/atul_gawande/search?contributorName=atul%20gawande