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An American sickness : how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back / Elisabeth Rosenthal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosenthal, Elisabeth, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States.
- Medical care.
- United States.
- Medical policy--United States.
- Medical policy.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Health insurance--United States.
- Health insurance.
- Hospital care--United States.
- Hospital care.
- Consumer education.
- Health Care Reform.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Patient Advocacy.
- Health Policy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Care Reform.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Patient Advocacy.
- Health Policy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Complaint: Unaffordable healthcare
- Part I: History of the present illness and review of systems. The age of insurance ; The age of hospitals ; The age of physicians ; The age of pharmaceuticals ; The age of medical devices ; The age of testing and ancillary services ; The age of contractors : billing, coding, collections, and new medical businesses ; The age of research and good works for profit : the perversion of a noble enterprise ; The age of conglomerates ; The age of healthcare as pure business ; The age of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)
- Part II: Diagnosis and treatment : prescriptions for taking back our healthcare. The high price of patient complacency ; Doctors' bills ; Hospital bills ; Insurance costs ; Drug and medical device costs ; Bills for tests and ancillary services ; Better healthcare in a digital age
- Appendix: Pricing/shopping tools ; Tools for vetting hospitals ; Glossary for medical bills and explanations of benefits ; Tools to help you figure out whether a test or a procedure is really necessary ; Templates for protest letters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-392) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 31, 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rosenthal, Elisabeth, 1956- American sickness.
- ISBN:
- 9780698407183
- 0698407180
- Publisher Number:
- 99986651816
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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