Steven Brill, author of America’s Bitter Pill, is very passionate about systems that the government controls and if they are controlling them correctly. Brill has been featured in several famous New York magazines, where he was born and raised. One main idea Brill talks about in these magazines is health care and how corrupt and broken it seems to be. The central idea of America’s Bitter Pill is that it informs people about how awful the healthcare system is so that the government can start fixing it. The health care system has had corruption issues, money problems, and many people has tried to change the system.
When corruption occurs in any type of system it never turns out good and when corruption hits an important system it affects the people that uses the system, and that works in the system. A president at Yale University makes more money than another president of a different branch of Yale, the Health System branch (Brill). Along with that, any kind of plastic surgery or botox is taxed and test to diagnose …show more content…
Starting in 1929, Americans spent 1% of domestic health care and that percent has grown bigger until about 8 years ago it turned into 16% and the percent keeps growing (Brill). The amount of money Americans spend on health care has grown to become about $3 trillion in the year 2014 (Brill). Prices have become so ridiculous that upon the arrival to an emergency room one can be charged money for anything from bandages to the room that one uses while they are there (Brill). The test that one may receive while at a hospital can cost up to several hundred dollars. The price of a CT scan alone can cost anywhere between $6,000 to $7,000 (Brill). For artificial hip and knees Americans spends $17 billion (Brill). These costly medical procedures leave people struggling to pay off medical bills and many times leaves people going bankrupt
When corruption occurs in any type of system it never turns out good and when corruption hits an important system it affects the people that uses the system, and that works in the system. A president at Yale University makes more money than another president of a different branch of Yale, the Health System branch (Brill). Along with that, any kind of plastic surgery or botox is taxed and test to diagnose …show more content…
Starting in 1929, Americans spent 1% of domestic health care and that percent has grown bigger until about 8 years ago it turned into 16% and the percent keeps growing (Brill). The amount of money Americans spend on health care has grown to become about $3 trillion in the year 2014 (Brill). Prices have become so ridiculous that upon the arrival to an emergency room one can be charged money for anything from bandages to the room that one uses while they are there (Brill). The test that one may receive while at a hospital can cost up to several hundred dollars. The price of a CT scan alone can cost anywhere between $6,000 to $7,000 (Brill). For artificial hip and knees Americans spends $17 billion (Brill). These costly medical procedures leave people struggling to pay off medical bills and many times leaves people going bankrupt