A powerful and path-breaking expose of America's Medical Industrial
Complex-the network of mutually beneficial relationships between
big business, academic medicine, patient advocacy organizations,
hospitals, and government-and a compelling way forward for
transforming America's healthcare system How has the United States,
with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system
that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any
other developed country-such that legendary seer Warren Buffett
calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American
economic competitiveness"? Mike Magee, M.D., who worked for years
inside the Medical Industrial Complex administering a hospital and
then as a senior executive at the giant pharmaceutical company
Pfizer, has spent the last decade deconstructing the complex, often
shocking rise of, and connectivity between, the pillars of our
health system-Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, the
American Medical Association, and anyone affiliated with them. With
an eye first and foremost on the bottom line rather than on the
nation's health, each sector has for decades embraced cure over
care, aiming to conquer disease rather than concentrate on the
cultural and social factors that determine health. This decision
Magee calls the "original sin" of our health system. Code Blue is a
riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on
the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American
dollars. Making clear for the first time the mechanisms, greed, and
collusion by which our medical system was built over the last eight
decades-and arguing persuasively and urgently for the necessity of
a single-payer, multi-plan insurance arena of the kind enjoyed by
every other major developed nation-Mike Magee gives us invaluable
perspective and inspiration by which we can, indeed, reshape the
future.
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