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Broken, Bankrupt, and Dying

Broken, Bankrupt, and Dying

by Brad Spellberg

★★★★★ 4.6 · 90 ratings on Amazon
🏆 Bestseller in Health Policy

About This Book

As Americans, we spend trillions of dollars more on healthcare than anyone else in the world, yet we have shorter lifespans. Patients are crushed by medical debt, sometimes forced to choose between paying for medications, rent, or food. Healthcare workers are burned out from being trapped in a broken system—one that has been the greatest rip-off of the American people this century. In Broken, Bankrupt, and Dying, Dr. Brad Spellberg tells the story of this tragic failure of American healthcare, from excess deaths to maddening inefficiencies, crushing costs to medical bankruptcies, and bizarre billing practices to absurd waste (learn what a “Johnson rod” is and how it affects your health).Dr. Spellberg presents a real-world solution for a better future that differs from the healthcare proposals discussed in the media. Most importantly, he shows us how we can do better—for our families, our businesses, and our society as a whole.

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Brad Spellberg

Brad Spellberg

Dr. Brad Spellberg is chief medical officer at the Los Angeles County and University of Southern California Medical Center and associate dean for clinical affairs at the Keck School of Medicine at USC. Internationally respected as an expert in infectious diseases and internal medicine, he has authored more than two hundred scientific publications, including his award-winning book Rising Plague, named an Outstanding Academic Title in 2009 by Choice magazine. He is featured in the documentary film Resistance and in the PBS Frontline episode Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria.

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