Timothy Garton Ash is a veteran British journalist, sort of from the Blairite "Third Way" school. He has lectured Bush on foreign policy and has been an influential writer about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. So his thoughts about how the health service in the UK is a microcosm of the future of Europe, which is called The Future of Europe, Seen from a Sickbed, is a great read.

It’s also very relevant in the US, where an aging white population is going to have proportionately more Hispanic youngsters looking after it in the coming decades.