An edition of Critical condition (2004)
Critical condition
how health care in America became big business--and bad medicine
By Donald L. Barlett
Publish Date
2004
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
eng
Pages
279
Description:
Offers an exposé of America's health-care system, profiling the hospitals, doctors, and patients that have become trapped by the system, while the HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and nursing home operators are reaping enormous profits.
subjects: Medizinische Versorgung, Gewinnmaximierung, Evaluation, Gesundheitsökonomie, Public health, Managed care plans (Medical care), Economics, Delivery of Health Care, Cost of Medical care, Health Policy, Health Insurance, Gesundheitswesen, Unterversorgung, Medical care, Medical policy, Medical care, Cost of, Medical economics, Insurance, Health, Misswirtschaft, Case Reports, Medically uninsured persons, Health Care Sector, Health Care Costs
Places: United States, USA