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A sweeping critical analysis of the American health-care industry describes the impact of market-driven health care on modern medicine, examining the waste in the system, the use of unnecessary tests and unwanted end-of-life treatments, and the emphasis on business rather than quality. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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"Mahar illuminates the profit motive behind medicine . . . in this savvy, detail-rich book."--Bloomberg.com
Mahar illuminates the profit motive behind medicine . . . in this savvy, detail-rich book. --Bloomberg.com"
About the Author:
Mahar illuminates the profit motive behind medicine . . . in this savvy, detail-rich book. --Bloomberg.com"
Maggie Mahar is the author of Bull! A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004, a book Paul Krugman of the New York Times said "makes a devastating case against the contention that the market is almost perfectly efficient." In his 2003 annual report, Warren Buffett recommended Bull! to Berkshire Hathaway's investors. Before becoming a financial journalist in 1982, when she began to write for Money magazine, Institutional Investor, the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Barron's, Mahar was an English professor at Yale University. She lives in New York City.
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- PublisherCollins
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0060765348
- ISBN 13 9780060765347
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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