Code blue : inside America's medical industrial complex / Mike Magee, MD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magee, Mike, M.D., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health insurance--Corrupt practices.

Health insurance.

Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Medical care--Corrupt practices.

Medical care.

United States.

Medical economics--United States.

Medical economics.

Medical care--United States.

Medical care--Corrupt practices--United States.

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices--United States.

Health insurance--Corrupt practices--United States.

Delivery of Health Care--economics.

Health Care Sector--economics.

Standard of Care--economics.

Health Care Reform.

Drug Industry.

Health Policy.

Medical Subjects:

United States.

Delivery of Health Care--economics.

Health Care Sector--economics.

Standard of Care--economics.

Health Care Reform.

Drug Industry.

Health Policy.

Physical Description:

viii, 422 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.

First edition.

Distribution:

[Berkeley, California] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2019.

Other Title:

Code blue

Inside America's medical industrial complex

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, [2019]

Summary:

"How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country--such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"? Mike Magee, M.D., who worked for years inside the Medical Industrial Complex administering a hospital and then as a senior executive at the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has spent the last decade deconstructing the complex, often shocking rise of, and connectivity between, the pillars of our health system--Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, the American Medical Association, and anyone affiliated with them. With an eye first and foremost on the bottom line rather than on the nation's health, each sector has for decades embraced cure over care, aiming to conquer disease rather than concentrate on the cultural and social factors that determine health. This decision Magee calls the "original sin" of our health system. Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars. Making clear for the first time the mechanisms, greed, and collusion by which our medical system was built over the last eight decades--and arguing persuasively and urgently for the necessity of a single-payer, multi-plan insurance arena of the kind enjoyed by every other major developed nation--Mike Magee gives us invaluable perspective and inspiration by which we can, indeed, reshape the future."--Amazon.com.

The Fascinating, infuriating story of how we built the world's most expensive, least equitable, health care system -- and what we can do to fix it. -- cover.

Contents:

The constant gardner

Intertwined

Government steps in

The war of science against disease

Advocates

The house of God

Insuring complexity

Masters of manipulation

Equal parts politics and science

Strange bedfellows : health care, politics, and the Christian Right

Nigeria, CROs, and research biases

Viagra : "everything that rises must converge"

New rules

Time to deal

The MIC : "tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"

Appendix: Timeline of Pfizers penalties and transgressions.

Notes:

"Profit over health: the fascinating, infuriating story of how we built the world's most expensive, least equitable, health care system--and what we can do to fix it"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-403) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Magee, Mike, M.D. Code blue.

ISBN:

9780802129055

0802129056

OCLC:

1078888800