Critical Condition How Health Care in America Became Big Business--And Bad Medicine

Name: Critical Condition How Health Care in America Became Big Business--And Bad Medicine
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ISBN: 9780767910750

ISBN-10: 0767910753

ISBN-13: 9780767910750

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Authors: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele

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Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control. Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor’s offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions in bonuses for denying treatment to the sick . . . More than 100 million people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . This may sound like the predicament of a third-world nation, but this is America’s health care reality today. The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation, yet our benefits are shrinking…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/11/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.462



Prologue: The Crisis



A Second-Rate System


Rampant Overcharging


Without A Safety Net


A Teacher Learns A Lesson


Spending More for Less


Watchdog for the Drug Companies


Emergency in the Er


America's Unknown Killer


Favors and Fraud


Politics and Profits



Wall Street Medicine


How Profit Became Policy


Selling the Hospitals


Corporate Culture


Buying the Doctors


Nurses Who Battle the Bottom Line



Anatomy of a Systems Failure


A Bad Business Model


Doctor C's Empire


Meltdown


Vanishing Histories



The Labyrinth of Care


The New Bureaucrats


Overruling the Physicians


The Wrong Jobs


The Insurers' Secret Codes


Long-Distance Diagnosis


Online and Offshore



Madison Avenue Medicine


Blame it on Bad Breath


The TV Ad Blitz


"Ask Your Doctor"


Risky Business


The Celebrity Pitch


Your Next Drugs



The Remedy


Curing the Ills


Crisis and Opportunity


Epilogue: Medicine in the Media


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index