More Money, More Problems: How Profit Hijacked American Health Care

The cost of health care in the United States is spiraling upward while politicians continue to bicker over how to fix a broken system. Elisabeth Rosenthal has a sweeping view of the problem because she has seen it from all sides.

Rosenthal is a Harvard Medical School graduate who practiced emergency medicine before becoming a journalist. She covered health care and other topics for The New York Times for more than 20 years before being named editor-in-chief of Kaiser Health News.

Rosenthal has put her breadth of knowledge and experience into a book titled An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business And How You Can Take It Back. She joined Knowledge@Wharton’s SiriusXM show to shine a light on the murky business model of health.

Podcast: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/big-business-health-care/