[Review] An American Sickness (Elisabeth Rosenthal) Summarized.

An American Sickness (Elisabeth Rosenthal) - Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XDG67T9?tag=9natree-20 - Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/An-American-Sickness-Elisabeth-Rosenthal.html - Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/an-american-sickness-how-healthcare-became-big/id1418828502?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree - eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=An+American+Sickness+Elisabeth+Rosenthal+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 - Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B06XDG67T9/ #healthcarecommercialization #opaquemedicalpricing #insurancenetworkbarriers #surprisemedicalbills #Medicarenegotiationpower #AnAmericanSickness An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back is a 2017 nonfiction investigation by physician and journalist Elisabeth Rosenthal. The book examines how the United States healthcare system evolved from a service model centered on treatment into a complex marketplace shaped by hospitals, insurers, drug companies, and other profit-driven actors. Rosenthal combines reporting, policy analysis, and patient stories to show how pricing, billing, and insurance practices often leave consumers confused and overcharged. Rather than treating healthcare dysfunction as a mystery, she frames it as the predictable result of incentives that reward volume, complexity, and opacity. The book also aims to give readers practical tools for navigating the system more carefully, while pointing toward larger reforms that could make care more transparent and affordable. It is both a diagnosis of systemic failure and a guide for readers who want to better understand where healthcare costs come from and how those costs can be challenged.