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An American sickness, how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back, Elisabeth Rosenthal

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An American sickness, how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back, Elisabeth Rosenthal

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-392) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An American sickness

Nature of contents

bibliography

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967133973

Responsibility statement

Elisabeth Rosenthal

Sub title

how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back

Summary

New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, and tells us exactly what we can do to solve its myriad of problems

Table Of Contents

Complaint: Unaffordable healthcare -- Part I: History of the present illness and review of systems. The age of insurance ; The age of hospitals ; The age of physicians ; The age of pharmaceuticals ; The age of medical devices ; The age of testing and ancillary services ; The age of contractors : billing, coding, collections, and new medical businesses ; The age of research and good works for profit : the perversion of a noble enterprise ; The age of conglomerates ; The age of healthcare as pure business ; The age of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- Part II: Diagnosis and treatment : prescriptions for taking back our healthcare. The high price of patient complacency ; Doctors' bills ; Hospital bills ; Insurance costs ; Drug and medical device costs ; Bills for tests and ancillary services ; Better healthcare in a digital age -- Appendix: Pricing/shopping tools ; Tools for vetting hospitals ; Glossary for medical bills and explanations of benefits ; Tools to help you figure out whether a test or a procedure is really necessary ; Templates for protest letters

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