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An American Sickness : How Healthcare Became Big Business - Elisabeth Rosenthal

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Plongez au cœur d'une enquête percutante sur le système de santé américain avec « An American Sickness » d'Elisabeth Rosenthal. Dans cet ouvrage de 432 pages publié chez Penguin Books, l'auteure analyse comment le secteur médical a été transformé en une industrie lucrative au détriment des patients. Ce livre, disponible en format poche, décortique ...

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GENERIC
Titre principal
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Editeur
Penguin Books
Type de produit
Paperback
Présentation du livre
Paperback
Release date
3/13/2018 12:00:00 AM
Langue d'origine
English
ISBN
143110853
Dimensions
5.45 x 0.98 x 8.35 inches
Nombre de pages de livre
432 pages
Langue - Librairie
English
Résumé
A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR "This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems.In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. 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. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and 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. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast? Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. 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. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw. The system is in
Auteur(s)
Elisabeth Rosenthal
Date de parution
3/13/2018 12:00:00 AM