Author Talk: Mike Magee with Book "Code Blue" (NWL)

This is an educational and highly visual 45-minute slide presentation that describes the evolution of the Medical-Industrial Complex in a compelling narrative form. Code Blue describes American health care’s changes in the immediate post-WWII period and how these led to an ever more formalized syndicate operation that deals every one in on the spoils - except the patient.

Code Blue makes the case that health care is not “too complex to understand” as Trump contended, nor “the best health care system in the world”, but instead an economic time-bomb described by Warren Buffett as “the tapeworm feeding on the U.S. economy.”

Code Blue makes a compelling case that the time has come to embrace the kind of health care system all Americans deserve and lays out an evidence-based, documented pathway for getting there.

Based on his recently published book (Grove Atlantic/2019/Kirkus Star review) medical historian and journalist, Mike Magee, MD answers the following questions: How did America become the only developed nation to deny universal coverage and health care as a right? Why are our costs the highest while our quality measures remain the lowest? How did health care become a business and what role did WWII play in this evolution? Who is pulling the strings and who are the villains and heroes in this story? And most importantly, what should we as a country do about it now?

PARKING: There is ample library event parking in the nearby Isham Garage. Please bypass the garage kiosks and come directly to the Noah Webster Library Meeting Room, 20 South Main Street, where you may validate your parking with your license plate number.