American Sickness How Healthcare Became Big Business & How You Can Take It Back
No institution has unraveled more quickly than American medicine. The medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. Politicians have proven themselves unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so instant?Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries, the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before and what we can do about it.A Must Read BookFree Shipping