Here’s a passage that brings historians’ public value to life: “The only way to come to understanding is by knowing the history that has shaped us,” writes Jon Meacham in his evocative, The Soul of America (p. 259).
What Meacham asserts is profound.…
On Sunday, December 2nd the book club had the pleasure of spending an hour in conversation with Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal, the author of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back. You can listen to our full conversation at the end of this post.
Dr. Rosenthal is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rosenthal practiced…
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TONIGHT Join us on a conference call with An American Sickness Author Elisabeth RosenthalSunday, December 2nd
at 7 pm ESTCall in and Join the Conversation Phone number: 641-715-3605 Passcode: 767775#
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The runaway inflation in the cost of living in America is worst in precisely those sectors of the economy that the 99% can’t live without — higher education, housing, and healthcare. In An American Sickness, Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal describes in excruciating detail how American healthcare has been hijacked.
How did this happen? How did we Americans get so divided that a plastic…
Elizabeth Rosenthal lays out in clear language why our healthcare system got in this sorry state and what we can do to help ourselves get better and cheaper care — but that is not enough. We must also start electing politicians who will get us to a better healthcare system. Healthcare should be a right — not a privilege as it is now. We need to organize our fellow Americans…
Dr. Jessie Fields (center) with Carrie Sackett, Alvaader Frazier, David Belmont and Nardo Reyes – New York City Independence Club Activists in Harlem doing street outreach.
Health Care Should Be About Health
I am a community primary care physician. I grew up seeing the effects of social isolation and poverty in the black community and I became a doctor because I wanted to help improve the…
PJ Steiner
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back was recommended to Politics for the People by PJ Steiner. Read on to see PJ’s response to Elisabeth Rosenthal’s book.
I initially heard about An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal while listening to an NPR interview with Terry Gross. Dr. Rosenthal was incredibly well versed on what the…
A Commentary on An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal
My first question to any elected official I contact about health care legislation (and I will) will be: “Have you read Elisabeth Rosenthal’s book, An American Sickness?”
If the answer is yes, my second question will be: “How have her ideas been incorporated in health care…
A Review of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
I am a consumer of health care, a practitioner and educator in general internal medicine for over fifty years, and a lifelong advocate for health care reform–single payer, a national health care service, and health care for all. In college, my sophomore term paper was a history of the AMA’s role…
Here’s a passage that brings historians’ public value to life: “The only way to come to understanding is by knowing the history that has shaped us,” writes Jon Meacham in his evocative, The Soul of America (p. 259). What Meacham asserts is profound.…
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Dr. Jessie Fields (center) with Carrie Sackett, Alvaader Frazier, David Belmont and Nardo Reyes – New York City Independence Club Activists in Harlem doing street outreach. Health Care Should Be About Health
My first question to any elected official I contact about health care legislation (and I will) will be: “Have you read Elisabeth Rosenthal’s book, An American Sickness?”
A Review of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back