Volume 15, Number 11 · December 17, 1970
The Medical-Industrial Complex
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Men, Money and Medicine
by Eli Ginzberg, by Miriam Ostow
Columbia, 291 pp., $8.50
The American crisis over health has finally taken a place alongside the urban crisis, the ecological crisis, and the 'youth crisis' as the subject for solemn Presidential announcements, TV documentaries, and special features of magazines ranging from Fortune to Redbook. But to the average consumer of pills, hospital care, and doctors' services, the crisis in health care is nothing new, except that the stakes—health, beauty, and life itself—get higher with each advance in medical technology, from miracle vaccines to organ transplants. The odds against the sick are high, and getting higher all the time.
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