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

"Why 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? The answer is profit prioritized over health. Mike Magee, MD, who worked for years inside the medical system admin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Magee, Mike, M.D (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, [2019]
Edition:First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Medical economics > United States.
Medical care > United States.
Medical care > Corrupt practices > United States.
Health care reform > United States.
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.
United States.
Health care reform.
Medical economics.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Health insurance > Government policy > United States.
Medical policy > United States.
Physical Description:viii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Code blue
Inside America's medical industrial complex
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The constant gardener
  • 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 Pfizer's penalties and transgressions.