{"product_id":"an-american-sickness-how-healthcare-became-big-business-and-how-you-can-take-it-back-paperback","title":"An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElisabeth Rosenthal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller\/\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2017\/NPR Best Books of 2017\/\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2017 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eSiddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor of All Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Gene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, \u003ci\u003eAn American Sickness \u003c\/i\u003eis a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system - and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how 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 and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. \u003ci\u003eAn American Sickness\u003c\/i\u003e is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDr. Elisabeth Rosenthal \u003c\/b\u003ewas for twenty-two years a reporter, correspondent, and senior writer at \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e before becoming the editor in chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent journalism newsroom focusing on health and health policy. She holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, trained in internal medicine, and has worked as an ER physician. She lives in New York City and Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 13, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49147501379836,"sku":"9780143110859","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0002\/8344\/3259\/files\/NHo2WEN4c2RRWjhOMUUxc3JNWXp6QT09.webp?v=1780181837","url":"https:\/\/howardimports.myshopify.com\/products\/an-american-sickness-how-healthcare-became-big-business-and-how-you-can-take-it-back-paperback","provider":"Zyayre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}