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winstonholyfield's review
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.25
This book is a short theory about how American healthcare became what it is. It focuses on the iron lung, dialysis machine, and respirator as emblematic technology. On the political side; blue cross, medicare and the Health security act. Through the six you can find a grand theme that makes the excesses and failures of the system sound like reasonable compromises. That being that those who pay for healthcare should have access to the most advanced technology available in the world but there must be a class of people who do are outside the system to maintain the profit margins to develop those technologies. It was never designed to bring about the health of those in its care, it was built to give access to high-medical-tech to the classes of people who could pay in aggregate without saddling an individual with ruinous debt.
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