Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal was for twenty-two years a reporter, correspondent, and senior writer at The New York Times before becoming the editor in chief of Kaiser Health News, an independent journalism newsroom focusing on health and health policy. She holds an MD from Harvard Medical School, trained in internal medicine, and has worked as an ER physician. She lives in New York City and Washington, DC.
At a moment of drastic political upheaval, a shocking investigation into the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American healthcare system, as well as solutions to its myriad of problems
In these troubled times, perhaps no institution has unraveled more quickly and more completely than American medicine. 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. Our politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs faced by patients, and market-based solutions only seem to funnel larger and larger sums of our money into the hands of corporations. Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Very quickly Americans have been made to accept paying more for less. How did things get so bad so fast?
Breaking down this monolithic business into the individual industries—the hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and drug manufacturers—that together constitute our healthcare system, Rosenthal exposes the recent evolution of American medicine as never before. How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Hospital systems, which are managed by business executives, behave like predatory lenders, hounding patients and seizing their homes. Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw.
The system is in tatters, but we can fight back. Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn't just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear and practical terms, she spells out exactly how to decode medical doublespeak, avoid the pitfalls of the pharmaceuticals racket, and get the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency. This is about what we can do, as individual patients, both to navigate the maze that is American healthcare and also to demand far-reaching reform. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
發表於2024-09-17
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所謂的美國病是具有美國特色的高價醫療。這讓我想起來1月份看的日本醫療製度,其中對比瞭日本與英國德國等西方國傢具有全民醫療保險的區彆,分析瞭日本醫療的特點。反觀我們國傢的醫療製度體係,我認為我國醫療保險和日本的有相似又有不同。日本不實行分級診療,而我們從不實行...
評分作者係統分析瞭美國醫療體係的種種問題,並給讀者提供瞭一些可行的應對措施。醫療在美帝就是一門生意,追求超額利潤是唯一的目的,市場經濟如果不能打擊壟斷,不僅是需要全社會來買單,再加上官商勾結,財閥對政治和政策的影響,最後既傷害消費者,也會破壞社會的穩定性和競爭...
評分所謂的美國病是具有美國特色的高價醫療。這讓我想起來1月份看的日本醫療製度,其中對比瞭日本與英國德國等西方國傢具有全民醫療保險的區彆,分析瞭日本醫療的特點。反觀我們國傢的醫療製度體係,我認為我國醫療保險和日本的有相似又有不同。日本不實行分級診療,而我們從不實行...
評分 評分一提到美國,可能我們想到的都是高大上,蘋果手機做得多麼適閤懶人,再也不會發生誤刪係統文件的事情瞭。是的,美國對我們而言,距離最近的就是每天拿在手裏使用的手機。其他的本來也不太去關注。若不是因為這次的疫情,也許人人都不會關注到它的醫療領域。 《美國病》是一本講...
圖書標籤: 醫療係統 經濟學 醫學 美國 社會 PublicHealth SocialPolicy 經濟,政治和曆史
書裏很重的一部分是第一部分,也是最讓人沮喪的,因為那揭露瞭美國醫療界的骯髒交易,從醫院到醫生,到藥房到醫療器械的使用,或者說是濫用。而我們最要看的是第二部分,但是感覺作者的計策也不多,如果醫療保險僅僅是生意的話,沒有一次巨大的徹底的改革,那麼這些小計策也很快就被堵住。所以前程可堪。
評分書裏很重的一部分是第一部分,也是最讓人沮喪的,因為那揭露瞭美國醫療界的骯髒交易,從醫院到醫生,到藥房到醫療器械的使用,或者說是濫用。而我們最要看的是第二部分,但是感覺作者的計策也不多,如果醫療保險僅僅是生意的話,沒有一次巨大的徹底的改革,那麼這些小計策也很快就被堵住。所以前程可堪。
評分外國的月亮也不圓
評分書裏很重的一部分是第一部分,也是最讓人沮喪的,因為那揭露瞭美國醫療界的骯髒交易,從醫院到醫生,到藥房到醫療器械的使用,或者說是濫用。而我們最要看的是第二部分,但是感覺作者的計策也不多,如果醫療保險僅僅是生意的話,沒有一次巨大的徹底的改革,那麼這些小計策也很快就被堵住。所以前程可堪。
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