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Critical Condition

How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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Critical Condition

How Health Care in America Became Big Business--and Bad Medicine

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

Award-winning journalists expose the horrific practices within America’s health care system, profiling patients and doctors and offering startling personal stories to illuminate what’s gone wrong. “Every American ought to read this book.”—The Plain Dealer Tens of millions of people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . dirty examination and operating rooms in doctors’ offices and hospitals . . . more people killed by mistakes than by many diseases. This may sound like the predicament of a failed state, but this is America’s health care reality today. The United States spends more per capita on health care than any other nation, yet benefits are shrinking and life expectancy here is shorter than in countries that spend significantly less. Meanwhile, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains reap tremendous profits, as our elected politicians, beholden to these same companies, enact piecemeal measures that lead to needless deaths, refusing to come to grips with a system on the verge of collapse. A superb investigative work that is enormously compelling and addresses the concerns of every American, Critical Condition offers an insightful prescription for getting the system back on the right track.

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Crown

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0767910753

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The Betrayal of the American Dream

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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The Betrayal of the American Dream

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

Examines the formidable challenges facing the middle class, calling for fundamental changes while surveying the extent of the problem and identifying the people and agencies most responsible.

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Public Affairs

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1586489690

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America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

By: Donald L. Barlett

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America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

By: Donald L. Barlett

A disturbing, eye-opening look at a tax system gone out of control. Originally designed to spread the cost of government fairly, our tax code has turned into a gold mine of loopholes and giveaways manipulated by the influential and wealthy for their own benefit. If you feel as if the tax laws are rigged against the average taxpayer, you're right: Middle-income taxpayers pick up a growing share of the nation’s tax bill, while our most profitable corporations pay little or nothing. Your tax status is affected more by how many lawyers and lobbyists you can afford than by your resources or needs. Our best-known and most successful companies pay more taxes to foreign governments than to our own. Cities and states start bidding wars to attract business through tax breaks—taxes made up for by the American taxpayer. Who really pays the taxes? Barlett and Stelle, authors of the bestselling America: What Went Wrong?, offer a graphic exposé of what’s wrong with our tax system, how it got that way, and how to fix it.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439129150

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9781439129159

The Great American Tax Dodge

How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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The Great American Tax Dodge

How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

Barlett and Steele...are masters at mining obscure documents to see the big picture where most investigators never even knew there was a frame...Year after year, Congress continues to make tax laws more complex and more unfair, then refuses to give the IRS adequate resources to ferret out fraud. If the tax code isn't reformed soon, the authors warn, the consequences might be dire."—Baltimore Sun "A hard-hitting expose of perceived gross inequities in the U.S. tax system."—Publishers Weekly

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Univ of California Press

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0520236106

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9780520236103

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese. Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and reclusiveness. This is the book that breaks through the image to get at the man. Originally published under the title Empire: The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393078582

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9780393078589

America: What Went Wrong?

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

Articles and graphics describe economic conditions since the 1980s and their effect on the nation.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0836270010

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9780836270013

Revitalizing America

A Declaration Against Our Government (Second Edition)

By: Donald L. Cleveland

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Revitalizing America

A Declaration Against Our Government (Second Edition)

By: Donald L. Cleveland

Revitalizing America takes an in-depth look at the promises of democracy made to Americans and the world, and the betrayals of those promises. The promises laid out in the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address and the Pledge of Allegiance have created a Santa Claus type myth about our government that is shattered every day in the world of real politics. The victims are "we the people."Our grievances can be recited just as the American revolutionists called out the king's offenses in the Declaration of Independence. They run the gamut from violations of human and civil rights, massive secret tests using poisonous materials on the citizenry without public knowledge or consent to old fashioned bribery and greed of public officials. It's our duty to remember our country was born through a revolution, and we must revitalize our democracy through a political and economic revolution. The people need to take back the government. www.revitalizeamericanow.org

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9798823014519

Politics, Economics and Investments

By: Donald M. Kinzer

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Politics, Economics and Investments

By: Donald M. Kinzer

Don believed the economic and financial markets have missed the key event holding back world growth: globalization. Globalization unleashed over one billion consumers and workers with the fall of the Berlin wall in 1990. The subsequent decline in communism was an historical economic event which had both positive and negative elements. The most negative element for the developed world was the limits on growth which are thus limiting employment. As the developed world has tried to maintain its lifestyle, even with the slower growth, it has resorted to more and more debt. Many advanced countries are now approaching historically dangerous debt levels. The resolution of this struggle between developed and developing countries will prove whether globalization has been a positive or negative force.

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Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

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The Betrayal of the American Dream

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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Examines the formidable challenges facing the middle class, calling for fundamental changes while surveying the extent of the problem and identifying the people and agencies most responsible.

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The Great American Tax Dodge

How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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How Spiraling Fraud and Avoidance Are Killing Fairness, Destroying the Income Tax, and Costing You

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Univ of California Press

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0520236106

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Critical Condition

How Health Care in America Became Big Business-- and Bad Medicine

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

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Critical Condition

How Health Care in America Became Big Business-- and Bad Medicine

By: Donald L. Barlett,James B. Steele

In Critical Condition, award-winning investigative journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele expose the horror of what health care in America has become. By analyzing the industry and offering an insightful prescription for getting it back on the right track.

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Book's by Donald L Barlett

Critical Condition

Critical Condition

The Betrayal of the American Dream

The Betrayal of the American Dream

America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

The Great American Tax Dodge

The Great American Tax Dodge

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

America: What Went Wrong?

America: What Went Wrong?

Revitalizing America

Revitalizing America

Politics, Economics and Investments

Politics, Economics and Investments

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

The Betrayal of the American Dream

The Betrayal of the American Dream

The Great American Tax Dodge

The Great American Tax Dodge

Critical Condition

Critical Condition

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