From The New York Review of Books: In her book An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back, Elisabeth Rosenthal explores how and why the U.S. healthcare system has become almost entirely driven by profits rather than by health or science.
This is part of a greater social belief, now popular among Republicans, that personal acquisition of money and “stuff” is the only valuable human activity. I’m surprised that the GOP mavens haven’t tried to nullify the 13th Amendment, so budding tycoons could sell their children into slavery to get start-up capital for their fledgling businesses.
