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Volume 352:1160-1161 March 17, 2005 Number 11
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Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business — and Bad Medicine

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By Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. 279 pp. New York, Doubleday, 2004. $24.95. ISBN 0-385-50454-3.

Love thy neighbor: an American paradox? The United States has one of the highest levels of church attendance in the world, but when it comes to health care, it seems that churchgoers find it difficult to love their neighbors in the way that secular Europeans take for granted.

Critical Condition, a fine polemic, describes how health care in the United States is financially rewarding to insurers and providers but delivers poor-quality health care to many of its citizens. Although U.S. health care has been described as the "best system in the world" (and it is in parts), it is also . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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