An American sickness : how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back / Elisabeth Rosenthal.
"An award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems. It is well documented that our healthcare system has grave problems, but how, in only a matter of decades, did things get this bad? Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms; she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. Rosenthal spells out in clear and practical terms exactlyhow to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship, explaining step by step the workings of a profession sorely lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate a byzantine system and also to demand far-reaching reform. Breaking down the monolithic business into its individual industries--the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, drug manufacturers--that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal tells the story of the history of American medicine as never before. The situation is far worse than we think, and it has become like that much more recently than we realize.Hospitals, 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. Americans are dying from routine medical conditions when affordable and straightforward solutions exist. Dr. Rosenthal explains for the first time how various social and financial incentives have encouraged a disastrous and immoral system to spring up organically in a shockingly short span of time. The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 1594206759
- ISBN: 9781594206757
- Physical Description: 406 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-392) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part I History of the Present Illness and Review of Systems -- 1 Age of Insurance 11 -- 2 Age of Hospitals 22 -- 3 Age of Physicians 55 -- 4 Age of Pharmaceuticals 87 -- 5 Age of Medical Devices 128 -- 6 Age of Testing and Ancillary Services 148 -- 7 Age of Contractors: Billing, Coding, Collections, and New Medical Businesses 166 -- 8 Age of Research and Good Works for Profit: The Perversion of a Noble Enterprise 182 -- 9 Age of Conglomerates 205 -- 10 Age of Healthcare as Pure Business 223 -- 11 Age of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) 230 -- Part II Diagnosis and Treatment: Prescriptions for Taking Back Our Healthcare -- 12 High Price of Patient Complacency 241 -- 13 Doctors' Bills 248 -- 14 Hospital Bills 261 -- 15 Insurance Costs 280 -- 16 Drug and Medical Device Costs 302 -- 17 Bills for Tests and Ancillary Services 319.
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