Money-Driven Medicine
Description
The U.S. spends twice as much per person on health care as the average industrialized nation, yet its outcomes are often worse. The reason? The U.S. is the only developed country that has turned medicine into a largely unregulated, for-profit enterprise. Inspired by Maggie Mahar's acclaimed book, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, this program offers a behind-the-scenes look at America's
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82 min
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Date of Publication
[2012], c2009
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