Making a Killing – HMOs and the Threat to Your Health

From the World Wide Web comes a website with the appropriate title of “Making a Killing – HMOs and the Threat to Your Health.” The site url is http://www.makingakilling.org/ and it features an online book with information related to the managed care industry and it’s thirst for profits over healthcare.

About the book (site), the Los Angeles Times writes: “Provides one of the most descriptive records of the horrors of HMO medicine during the 1990s, with numerous stories of individuals who were denied care or had to fight their HMOs for coverage of medical services. Court and Smith make a compelling case for the absurdity of a health-care system based on the concept of minimizing care to increase profits and please shareholders. They reveal how and why most HMOs have broken their early promises to control costs and reduce the number of uninsured Americans.”

The “book” features some interesting chapters some of which are listed here:

The End of Health Care – Who Plays God in a System Bent on Profit

A Deadly Fraud – Behind the Caring Image of HMOs and Managed Care Companies

The Death of Community Health Care and Hospitals