Kyle Harrison
to-read
An American Sickness
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
- Author
- Elisabeth Rosenthal
- Published
- 2017
- Pages
- 419
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Rosenthal walks the American medical bill line by line — hospitals, insurers, drugmakers, billing companies — and shows how each layer learned to charge.
Where I saw it: Shown on the health-care-and-poverty shelf in the Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach store account’s BookTok video (@bnhuntingtonbeach) — “our personal syllabus for this semester as we say goodbye to tiktok” — saved to Kyle’s Apple Note “Books To Read”. Video: https://www.tiktok.com/@bnhuntingtonbeach/video/7461057163067165982
Connections
- Healthcare — the subject.
- Capitalism — the mechanism.