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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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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Broadway (October 11 2005)
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Chapter 1: A Second-Rate System
It was billed as a Garage Sale for Mason. By the time all the donations had come in, no garage could hold them. So the clothes, toys, old appliances, tools, car accessories-everything-were loaded onto a church moving van and carted to an open lot next


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Donald L. BarlettDonald L. Barlett

Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele are America's most widely acclaimed investigative journalism team. They are the only journalists in history to have won two Pulitzer Prizes and two National Magazine Awards, as well as dozens of other national awards. Barlett was born in DuBois, Pennsylvania and he grew up in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He attended Pennsylvania State University and served three years as a special agent with the United States Army Counter Intelligence Corps.

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James B. SteeleJames B. Steele

James B. Steele and Donald L. Barlett are America's most widely acclaimed investigative journalism team. They have worked together for three decades, first at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and, since 1997, as editors at large for Time. They are the coauthors of six books, including America: What Went Wrong?, which spent eight months on the New York Times bestseller list.

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