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Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business–and Bad Medicine

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Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most improper system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to give an explanation for exactly how things grew so out of keep watch over.

Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor’s offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions in bonuses for denying remedy 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 and life expectancy is shorter here than in countries that spend significantly less per capita. Meanwhile, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains reap tremendous profits, even as politicians—beholden to insurers and drug companies—enact legislation for the good thing about the few reasonably than the many, even as the entire system is on the verge of collapse.

In CRITICAL CONDITION, award-winning investigative journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele expose the horror of what health care in America has turn into. They profile patients and doctors trapped by the system and offer startling personal stories that illuminate what’s gone flawed. Doctors tell of being second-guessed and undermined by health care insurers; nurses recount chilling tales of hospital meltdowns; patients give an explanation for how they’ve been victimized by a system that is meant to care for them. Drug companies profit by selling pills in the same manner that Madison Avenue sells soap, even as Wall Street rakes in billions by building up and then tearing down health care businesses. And politicians pass legislation perpetuating the injustices and out-right fraud the system encourages.

By analyzing the industry and offering an insightful prescription for getting it back on target, CRITICAL CONDITION is an enormously compelling investigative work that addresses the concerns of every American.

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