An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Random House Large Print)
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1524756202 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 656 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Reid, bestselling author of A Fine Mess, The Healing of America, The United States of Europe, The Chip, and Confucius Lives Next Door “An American Sickness will give you many new reasons to avoid getting sick, but also the resources to help protect your finances and your life if you do. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Reinventing American Health Care . She also teaches us how to fight back against usele
She holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, trained in internal medicine, and has worked as an ER physician. Elisabeth Rosenthal was for twenty-two years a reporter, correspondent, and senior writer at The New York Times before becoming the editor in chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent journalism newsroom focusing on health and health policy. . She lives in New York City and Was
Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency.
"A Genuine Public Service" according to David Wineberg. An American Sickness is a gripping, fast paced and revolting dive from 50,000 feet above into the morass of what passes for healthcare in the USA. Patients are barely tolerated in a system optimized to pass money from bank accounts to providers. The industry is mean, nasty and greedy, with worse results than comparable nations - for far more cost. Everything you feared is true, and there is much more in these A Genuine Public Service David Wineberg An American Sickness is a gripping, fast paced and revolting dive from 50,000 feet above into the morass of what passes for healthcare in the USA. Patients are barely tolerated in a system optimized to pass money from bank accounts to providers. The industry is mean, nasty and greedy, with worse results than comparable nations - for far more cost. Everything you feared is true, and there is much more in these 400 pages.Because Rosenthal (an MD herself) was a columnist for the New York Times, she recei. 00 pages.Because Rosenthal (an MD herself) was a columnist for the New York Times, she recei. I teach health policy and am amazed at what I didn't know about the way our I have been a nurse since 1978 and have had a front row seat to the changes in health care in the ensuing decades. I teach health policy and am amazed at what I didn't know about the way our health care system is financed. It is appalling. You should be scared. You should read this book and work for change.. D. McLeod AZ said How healthcare got this way. Not a subject matter I would normally be interested in, but in the current political climate I felt I should get a better understanding of what is going on in the healthcare industries. The four chapters on the history of the American heath insurance industry, hospitals, doctors and pharmaceutical industry alone make the book worthwhile to read.I am not a big fan of the government getting involved in healthcare, however if we are going to let free enterprise control the costs I think it is important t