How gets the United States, with more assets than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the expense of every other developed country-such that legendary seer Warren Buffett phone calls the Medical Industrial Complex ‘the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness’? Mike Magee, MD, who worked for years inside the Medical Industrial Organic administering a medical center and then as a senior executive at the huge pharmaceutical business Pfizer, provides spent about Code Blue: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Organic the final decade deconstructing the complicated, often shocking rise of, and connectivity between, the pillars of our health and wellness system-Big Pharma, insurance companies, private hospitals, the American Medical Association, and anyone associated with them. With an eyes first and most important on the bottom line rather than on the nation’s wellness, each sector has for many years embraced remedy over care, aiming to overcome disease instead of focus on the ethnic and social elements that determine wellness. This decision Magee calls the ‘primary sin’ of our health system.

Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the large sector that consumes one out of every five American dollars.