Curated by Reginald Bell

Articles

A ‘hellish world’: the mental health crisis overwhelming America’s prisons by Alisa Roth

In Matters of Health Care and Poverty, The United States Is Ill-informed and Heartless by P. L. Thomas

Poor Health: When Poverty Becomes Disease by Jane Goodman and Claire Conway

Racial bias in a medical algorithm favors white patients over sicker black patients by Carolyn Y Johnson

Racism and discrimination in health care: Providers and patients by Monique Tello

Research explores racial bias in medical care across nations by UChicago Medicine

Treatment Denied: The Mental Health Crisis in Federal Prisons by Christie Thompson and Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge

Videos

Why we can’t fix our healthcare system 

Racial bias in Canadian healthcare

Racial bias in widely used hospital algorithm, study finds

Claims of racial discrimination in healthcare to be investigated

Books

The American Healthcare Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less by Elizabeth H Bradley and Lauren A Taylor

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals and the Fight to Fix our Broken Healthcare System by Steven Brill

Code Blue: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex by Mike Magee

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid

The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care by Clayton M. Christensen 

The Price We Pay: What Broke American Healthcare and How to Fix It by Marty Makary

Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care by Uwe Reinhardt

Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Healthcare by Martin Makary

Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush and Stephen Baker