An American Sickness
How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
About the book
Elisabeth Rosenthal, a physician and award-winning New York Times reporter, examines how American medicine turned from a caring endeavor into a highly profitable industry within a few decades. She looks at each of the industries that make up the system, from hospitals and doctors to insurers and drug makers, and shows how profit shapes them: hospital systems run by executives that hound patients like predatory lenders, research charities tied to large drug companies, and coded bills from doctors patients never saw. Rosenthal also gives practical advice on decoding medical jargon, avoiding the traps of the pharmaceutical business and pressing for broader reform. It reached the New York Times best seller list.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel endorsed it for exposing the unfairness of a health care system that can seem driven more by profit than by care, and for its practical advice to patients.
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Ezekiel J. Emanuel (Author)
Through vivid, heart wrenching stories and trenchant analysis, Libby Rosenthal unveils the irrationality, indifference, harmfulness, and downright unfairness of the American health care system that can often seem more driven by profit than caring and compassion. She also offers tremendously helpful advice to patients on how to navigate the system to ensure they get the best outcomes.
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