Jonathan Engel is the author of American Therapy; Poor People's Medicine; Doctors and Reformers; and The Epidemic: A History of AIDS. He is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Engel's clear storyline and simple (but not simplistic) analysis make sense of a topic of mind-boggling complexity. Invaluable." - David Herzberg, author of Happy Pills in America"A comprehensive, readable, balanced examination of the costs of the crazy quilt healthcare 'system' that has evolved in the United States over five decades." - Ronald L. Numbers, coeditor of Sickness and Health in America“Engel, author of four previous books on healthcare policy, presents a deeply researched, authoritative, and rigorous account of healthcare’s flaws. . . . An important, concise appraisal of the current situation and of the way that America got here.”—Foreword Reviews

• Timeline of Major Federal Legislation   Introduction1 A System Run Amok 2 Medical Free Markets3 Reining in the Excess 4 The Lure of Profits 5 Efforts to Rationalize6 HillaryCare  7 Managing Care   8 Quantity and Quality 9 Ethical Wrangling10 Medicare and Medicaid: Evolving Government Programs 11 (Un)Affordable Care   12 Afterword  AcknowledgmentsNotes  Index

Jonathan Engel is the author of American Therapy; Poor People's Medicine; Doctors and Reformers; and The Epidemic: A History of AIDS. He is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Engel's clear storyline and simple (but not simplistic) analysis make sense of a topic of mind-boggling complexity. Invaluable." - David Herzberg, author of Happy Pills in America"A comprehensive, readable, balanced examination of the costs of the crazy quilt healthcare 'system' that has evolved in the United States over five decades." - Ronald L. Numbers, coeditor of Sickness and Health in America“Engel, author of four previous books on healthcare policy, presents a deeply researched, authoritative, and rigorous account of healthcare’s flaws. . . . An important, concise appraisal of the current situation and of the way that America got here.”—Foreword Reviews

• Timeline of Major Federal Legislation   Introduction1 A System Run Amok 2 Medical Free Markets3 Reining in the Excess 4 The Lure of Profits 5 Efforts to Rationalize6 HillaryCare  7 Managing Care   8 Quantity and Quality 9 Ethical Wrangling10 Medicare and Medicaid: Evolving Government Programs 11 (Un)Affordable Care   12 Afterword  AcknowledgmentsNotes  Index

Jonathan Engel is the author of American Therapy; Poor People's Medicine; Doctors and Reformers; and The Epidemic: A History of AIDS. He is a professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Engel's clear storyline and simple (but not simplistic) analysis make sense of a topic of mind-boggling complexity. Invaluable." - David Herzberg, author of Happy Pills in America"A comprehensive, readable, balanced examination of the costs of the crazy quilt healthcare 'system' that has evolved in the United States over five decades." - Ronald L. Numbers, coeditor of Sickness and Health in America“Engel, author of four previous books on healthcare policy, presents a deeply researched, authoritative, and rigorous account of healthcare’s flaws. . . . An important, concise appraisal of the current situation and of the way that America got here.”—Foreword Reviews

• Timeline of Major Federal Legislation   Introduction1 A System Run Amok 2 Medical Free Markets3 Reining in the Excess 4 The Lure of Profits 5 Efforts to Rationalize6 HillaryCare  7 Managing Care   8 Quantity and Quality 9 Ethical Wrangling10 Medicare and Medicaid: Evolving Government Programs 11 (Un)Affordable Care   12 Afterword  AcknowledgmentsNotes  Index