by Steven Brill
First published 2015
Steven Brill takes readers inside America's broken healthcare system to reveal how corporate interests and political dysfunction created a crisis that affects every citizen. The author traces the complex web of insurance companies, pharmaceutical giants, hospitals, and lawmakers who shaped the Affordable Care Act while pursuing their own agendas. Brill shows how good intentions collided with entrenched power structures, creating a system that enriches middlemen while patients struggle with crushing costs. Through detailed reporting and insider access, he demonstrates how the promise of healthcare reform became entangled in bureaucratic complexity and industry lobbying. The book reveals the human cost of a system that treats healthcare as a commodity rather than a right, offering readers a clear-eyed view of how American medicine became both miracle and disaster.
Genres: medical, business, american, non-fiction, health, 21st-century, current-affairs, american-history
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: insider-access, investigative-journalism
Setting: America
Period: 21st-century
512 pages · Hardcover · Random House