Summary of Thom Hartmann's The Hidden History of American Healthcare

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Thom Hartmann's The Hidden History of American Healthcare in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Other countries have shown us that affordable universal healthcare is not only possible but also effective and efficient. Taiwan's single-payer system saved the country a fortune as well as saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, enabling the country to implement a nationwide coronavirus test-and-contact-trace program without shutting down the economy. This resulted in just ten deaths, while more than 500,000 people have died in the United States.

Hartmann offers a deep dive into the shameful history of American healthcare, showing how greed, racism, and oligarchic corruption led to the current “sickness for profit” system. Modern attempts to create versions of government healthcare have been hobbled at every turn, including Obamacare.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Dec 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781669342076

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Insights on Thom Hartmann's The Hidden History of American Healthcare

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Healthcare systems can also be national security systems. Just ask anyone from Taiwan.

#2

Americans spend on average about twice as much on health care as other countries, even though our health care is considered the worst in the industrialized world.

#3

The United States has been trying for 70 years to provide healthcare via a for-profit system. It has failed miserably at both extending life and improving quality.

#4

The first is the private insurance