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An American Sickness: how healthcare became big business and how you can take it back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

This read was significantly more interesting than the other one I read and let's be honest, I read the important chapters of the others because I was extremely over reading books 400 pages long about healthcare. This book talks about how in the country that is quickly unraveling due to corrupt politics, American medicine is the first thing to go. "In only a few decades, the medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking to exploit for profit the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. American healthcare was set up like a best buy, but that's not how healthcare works. They expect you to shop like you do at best buy, make the smart choice and take your time with research however they place you in an environment in which you are most likely unconscious or unable to make an educated decision. It's when your kid is sick or you are and it's a situation not a lot of people know enough about, heck it takes doctors years to be able to bullshit the average person. They force you into a situation in which you have no choice but to say yes and ask for their help and in the process, they get to charge you whatever the heck they would like because you have no options. "How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry?

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