How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine [Hardcover]

Short-listed as a finalist for the 2024 New York Public Library's Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism We have accepted too much for too long. There are those who will say that the book exaggerates and that things he reports dont happen. Maybe they dont in some/most clinics, but even if they happen in a few clinics, we can do better. We urge you to stop what youre doing, buy this book, and read it from cover to cover. The book presents nothing short of an indictment of rabid capitalism run amok, effectively turning what should be a life-saving branch of medicine into a criminal enterprise. Tom Mueller goes deep, then wide, then straight for the jugular of the corporate predators who are getting rich by exploiting the poor and vulnerable. Anybody who can read I loved Tom Muellers beautifully written and fascinating account of both the miraculous possibilities of medical technology and the perils of poorly structured markets. There is universal medical care in the United States, but only for kidney disease. How a program started by Richard Nixon and corrupted by finance has saved lives, and cost them, is the story of modern America. Inspiring and deeply distressing. Mueller illustrates how modern medicine could devise technologies to literally revive people dying of kidney failure and how such miracles became perverted and incentivized abuses. A sad, shocking tale. Tom Muellers A terrifying story of profit before patients, and chilling glimpse of what can happen when private companies are allowed to take charge of healthcare.