HMO’S AND THE THREAT TO YOUR HEALTH
A Landmark Exposé on Managed Care
Jamie Court and Francis Smith take on the corporate world of managed healthcare and explain, in plain language, what HMO Insurance means for your health — and who really profits from the managed-care system.
Through chilling real-life patient stories and hard data, Making a Killing documents how HMOs systematically deny and delay necessary treatment to minimize costs and maximize shareholder returns, often with catastrophic consequences for patients and their families.
A landmark work that exposed the dark side of “managed care” long before the debate reached its current urgency.
- Authors Jamie Court & Francis Smith
- Foreword by Ralph Nader
- PublisherCommon Courage Press
- Published1999
- Pages230
- ISBN978-1-56751-168-0
- Genre Health Policy / Consumer Rights / Political Science
If a Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is your family’s medical provider, just hope you never face a medical crisis. This compelling book tells story after story of people who got caught–and killed-in a system aimed at profit. Read the human stories behind the HMO statistics.
Find out the real cost of savings gained at the bottom line. In Making a Killing, consumer activists Jamie Court and Francis Smith take on the corporate world of managed care and explain, in plain language, what HMOs mean for your health, and who really profits from the managed care system.
You can read this book online at http://makingakilling.org/
