
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal
by Christina
Nonfiction – Kindle edition. Penguin Press, 2017. 412 pgs. Purchased. Subtitled “How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back”, Rosenthal’s book is neatly split into two parts: one answering how healthcare came a profit-maximizing business and another attempting to offer readers ways to control their own bills. The first section examines all the reasons Americans have been told their healthcare costs so much – cost of innovation, greedy pharmaceutical companies, doctors drowning in debt – and […]
Categories: 2019 Reads, 20BooksofSummer, Economics, Nonfiction, North America, United States