Code Blue: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex Audiobook

How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country—such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex "the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness"? Mike Magee, MD, who worked for years inside the Medical Industrial Complex administering a hospital and then as a senior executive at the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has spent the last decade deconstructing the complex, often shocking rise of, and connectivity between, the pillars of our health system—Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, the American Medical Association, and anyone affiliated with them. With an eye first and foremost on the bottom line rather than on the nation's health, each sector has for decades embraced cure over care, aiming to conquer disease rather than concentrate on the cultural and social factors that determine health. This decision Magee calls the "original sin" of our health system.

Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars.

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“Show[s] readers that the present dysfunction in U.S. health care is not an aberration but a persistent feature of a system ruled by self-interested institutions…The material on Big Pharma is where the book cuts deepest…[Magee] describes a world in which needed drugs are not produced because profits don’t justify it but huge research-driven pharma companies cry foul when their work benefits the public cheaply after patents expire.”

— Minneapolis Star Tribune