The Commodification of Hospital Care in the United States
by
Adam Dalton Reich
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2014
Health care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as big business. Patients have little choice but...