{"product_id":"9781947492028","title":"Out of the Ooze: The Story of Dr. Tom Price","description":"\u003cb\u003ePraise for Out of the Ooze: The Story of Dr. Thomas Price\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Donald Trump is the sick showman of Washington scandal, but the meat and potatoes of personal and corporate thievery goes to Thomas Price, secretary of HHS, who has created a profit center of illness and suffering.\"\u003cbr\u003e- Willam Greider, The Nation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe U.S. healthcare system is the outlier of the developed world: immoral, inefficient, expensive, and corrupt as hell. This system has survived into the present day thanks in large part to a century of organized medical-industry reaction epitomized by Dr. Tom Price, the surgeon-businessman-politician presently serving Donald Trump as the secretary of Health and Human Services. The story of this man's rise out of Atlanta's suburbs - a rise built on far-right ideology and market fundamentalism, rank greed and breathtaking cruelty - is also the story, and the ultimate condemnation, of our nation's larger failure to provide healthcare as a right to all Americans. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Out of the Ooze, journalist Alexander Zaitchik (author of Common Nonsense and The Gilded Rage) sketches the arc of Price's career, from his days as a young flack for the American Medical Association barnstorming Georgia in opposition to the Clinton reform push of 1993; to his years on the Ways and Means Committee, when he brazenly traded $300,000 worth of healthcare-related stocks while lobbying on behalf of those same companies; to his current position at the apex of healthcare policy and GOP strategy to roll back the moderate reforms of the previous administration. The result is a taut argument for both the criminal investigation of Tom Price and a radical overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system he now oversees.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strong Arm Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055033008368,"sku":"9781947492028","price":5.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781947492028_p0.jpg?v=1763798269","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781947492028","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}