Canada on CODE BLUE (translation)

Translation:

“Code Blue is the phrase usually announced over hospital PA systems to alert staff of a medical emergency requiring immediate attention.

How did the United States, with more resources than any other nation, develop a healthcare system that delivers far poorer outcomes, nearly double the cost of any other developed country, such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the medical industrial complex the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness? Mike Magee, M.D., who worked for years in the medical industrial complex, running a hospital and then as a senior executive at the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has spent the last decade deconstructing the often shocking complexities and connections between the pillars of our healthcare system: Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, the American Medical Association, and any affiliation with them. With an eye primarily on outcomes rather than the nation’s health, every sector has for decades embraced cures over care, aiming to defeat disease rather than focus on the cultural and social factors that determine health. This Magee decision calls out the original sin of our healthcare system.

Code Blue is a compelling, character-driven narrative that pulls back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one in five American dollars. Clearly demonstrating for the first time the mechanisms, greed, and collusion by which our medical system has been built over the past eight decades—and making a compelling and urgent case for the need for a single-payer, multi-plan insurance arena of the kind enjoyed by every other major developed country—Mike Magee gives us invaluable perspective and inspiration through which we can, indeed, reshape the future.”