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How to Make a Killing

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Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: a treatment that made kidney failure a manageable condition instead of a death sentence. And yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care. A gripping microcosm of American health care gone wrong, How to Make a Killing recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s-when transplants and early dialysis machines offered hope-gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing (and profiting from) life-saving care. After Congress made renal disease the only "Medicare for All" condition, Big Dialysis proliferated, and the Hippocratic oath gave way to the profit motive. A triumph of investigative research, Tom Mueller's book features an unforgettable cast of characters: CEOs who dress as Musketeers to exhort more aggressive profit-seeking, nephrologist insiders who reveal the substandard care this causes, and heroic patients who risk their lives to reveal the truth.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780393866513
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 288
  • Udgivet:
  • 1. august 2023
  • Størrelse:
  • 159x32x236 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 477 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 12. december 2024
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Six decades ago, researchers achieved the impossible: a treatment that made kidney failure a manageable condition instead of a death sentence. And yet, in the hands of a predatory medical industry, this triumph led to skyrocketing costs and worsening care.
A gripping microcosm of American health care gone wrong, How to Make a Killing recounts how the optimism of the 1950s and 1960s-when transplants and early dialysis machines offered hope-gave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing (and profiting from) life-saving care. After Congress made renal disease the only "Medicare for All" condition, Big Dialysis proliferated, and the Hippocratic oath gave way to the profit motive.
A triumph of investigative research, Tom Mueller's book features an unforgettable cast of characters: CEOs who dress as Musketeers to exhort more aggressive profit-seeking, nephrologist insiders who reveal the substandard care this causes, and heroic patients who risk their lives to reveal the truth.

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