Code blue, inside America's medical industrial complex, Mike Magee, MD
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Code blue, inside America's medical industrial complex, Mike Magee, MD
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-403) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Code blue
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bibliography
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Mike Magee, MD
Sub title
inside America's medical industrial complex
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
Table Of 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
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Code blueInside America's medical industrial complex
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- Medical economics -- United States
- Health Policy
- Health Care Reform
- Medical care + Corrupt practices -- United States
- Pharmaceutical industry + Corrupt practices -- United States
- Drug Industry
- Health care reform -- United States
- Medical care -- United States
- Standard of Care + economics
- Health insurance + Corrupt practices -- United States
- United States
- Health Care Sector + economics
- Delivery of health care + Economics
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- Subject13
- Medical economics -- United States
- Health Policy
- Health Care Reform
- Medical care + Corrupt practices -- United States
- Pharmaceutical industry + Corrupt practices -- United States
- Drug Industry
- Health care reform -- United States
- Medical care -- United States
- Standard of Care + economics
- Health insurance + Corrupt practices -- United States
- United States
- Health Care Sector + economics
- Delivery of health care + Economics
- Content1
- Author1
- Other version1