How to Make a Killing

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780393866513 Author(s): Tom Mueller Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2023 Publisher: WW Norton & Co Pages: 288

Description: 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 1960sâwhen transplants and early dialysis machines offered hopeâgave way to anguished debates about the ethics of rationing (and profiting from) life-saving care. After Congress made renal disease the only âMedicare for Allâ condition, Big Dialysis proliferated, and the Hippocratic oath gave way to the profit motive. A triumph of investigative research, Tom Muellerâs 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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