Expose attacks health policy behind the consequences.

Abstract

A new book by Walt Bogdanich, special writer for the Wall Street Journal, aims to flag down passing consumers and show them some of the wreckage caused by healthcare institutions in the real world of healthcare competition, prospective payment, cost containment and personnel shortages. His message to the public in The Great White Lie: How America's Hospitals Betray our Trust and Endanger our Lives is that all hospitals and physicians aren't the same and that the public must demand access to medical performance records. Modern healthcare asked him what his message is to healthcare executives and policymakers, who take the brunt of his criticism.