How to Make a Killing

[A] grimly fascinating and humane exposé…How to Make a Killing is about a small part of the US health economy, but it functions as an eye-openingly baleful illustration of where the embedded incentives of such a system, if not sternly regulated, would inevitably lead in any country. * Telegraph *A rich and sweeping saga that is, sadly, a quintessentially American story: How a miracle medical machine transformed into profit machine, sick and suffering patients be damned. – Jesse Eisinger[A] beautifully written and fascinating account of both the miraculous possibilities of medical technology and the perils of poorly structured markets. – Matt StollerA terrifying story of profit before patients, and a chilling glimpse of what can happen when private companies are allowed to take charge of healthcare. – Gavin FrancisTom Mueller goes deep, then wide, then straight for the jugular of the corporate predators who are getting rich by exploiting the poor and vulnerable. Anybody who can read How to Make a Killing without getting outraged must be unconscious. This book raised my blood pressure by at least thirty points – Carl ElliottInspiring and deeply distressing…..Illustrates how modern medicine could devise technologies to literally revive people dying of kidney failure and how such miracles became perverted * Ezekiel J. Emanuel *

Tom Mueller is a New York Times bestselling author whose previous books include Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of Fraud and Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and the Atlantic Monthly. He divides his time between the Pacific Northwest and Italy.