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
- 3 times
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 heard about it
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Spotted at Books Inc. at Laurel Village, San Francisco — May 2018 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Powell’s City of Books, Portland — November 2019 (Books photo album)
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Barnes & Noble Huntington Beach (@bnhuntingtonbeach) — on the health-care-and-poverty shelf in a BookTok video billed as “our personal syllabus for this semester as we say goodbye to tiktok.”
Connections
- Healthcare — the subject.
- Capitalism — the mechanism.