The Hidden History of American Healthcare
  • Published: 21 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9781523091638
  • Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $39.99
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The Hidden History of American Healthcare

Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich

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Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality.
 

The New York Times–bestselling author explores the history of American healthcare system, what went wrong, and how it can be remedied.

Popular progressive radio host and bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality.

“For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s,” says Thom Hartmann.

Other countries have shown us that affordable universal healthcare is not only possible but also effective and efficient. Taiwan’s single-payer system saved the country a fortune as well as saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, enabling the country to implement a nationwide coronavirus test-and-contact-trace program without shutting down the economy. This resulted in just ten deaths, while more than 500,000 people have died in the United States.

Hartmann offers a deep dive into the shameful history of American healthcare, showing how greed, racism, and oligarchic corruption led to the current “sickness for profit” system. Modern attempts to create versions of government healthcare have been hobbled at every turn, including Obamacare.

There is a simple solution: Medicare for all. Hartmann outlines the extraordinary benefits this system would provide the American people and economy and the steps we need to take to make it a reality. It’s time for America to join every industrialized country in the world and make health a right, not a privilege.
  • Published: 21 September 2021
  • ISBN: 9781523091638
  • Imprint: Berrett-Koehler
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

About the author

Thom Hartmann

Thom Hartmann is a four‐time winner of the Project Censored Award, a New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books, and America’s #1 progressive talk radio show host for more than a decade. His show is carried on SiriusXM and radio stations nationwide and simulcast as television on Free Speech TV.

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The Hidden History of American Oligarchy
The Hidden History of Monopolies
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Praise for The Hidden History of American Healthcare

Praise for The Hidden History of the War on Voting

"Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons."--Booklist

Praise for The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America

"Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Hidden History of Monopolies

"This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation."--from the foreword by Ralph Nader

Praise for The Hidden History of the War on Voting

"Hartmann's history of voter suppression in America is necessary information given current news about voter registration purges and redistricting...a particularly timely topic for an election year, and anyone who is seriously concerned about the survival of American democracy will want to read this book and apply its lessons."--Booklist

Praise for The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America

"Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic." --Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Hidden History of Monopolies

"This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation."--from the foreword by Ralph Nader

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