Kyle Harrison
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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
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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.