Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine

Barlett, Donald L., Steele, James B.

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Offers an exposâe of America's health-care system, profiling the hospitals, doctors, and patients that have become trapped by the system, while the HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and nursing home operators are reaping enormous profits.

About the Author: <p><b>DONALD L. BARLETT</b> and <b>JAMES B. STEELE</b> are America’s most widely acclaimed investigative journalism team. They have worked together for three decades, first at the <i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i>, and, since 1997, as editors at large for <i>Time.</i> They are the only journalists in history to have won two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards, as well as dozens of other national awards. They are the coauthors of six books, including <i>America: What Went Wrong?</i>, which spent eight months on the <i>New York Times </i>bestseller list.</p>

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