A New York Times bestseller/Washington Post Notable Book of
2017/NPR Best Books of 2017/Wall Street Journal Best Books of 2017
"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
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. An American
Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that
no longer has our well-being at heart.
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