I have to apologize for the lack of video this month. Our house is a mess right now as we prepare to potentially move, so my video capabilities are on hold for a minute. But, below are the books I’m reading in July! Enjoy!
Featured Books for July Book Club 2021:
American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal
At a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking investigation into our dysfunctional healthcare system – and offers practical solutions to its myriad problems.
The medical system has been overrun by organizations seeking profit, breaking the trust that vulnerable and sick Americans place in their healthcare. American politicians have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of reining in the increasingly outrageous costs of the healthcare industry.
Impossibly high insurance premiums and inexplicably large bills have become facts of life; fatalism has set in. Things got bad, and fast. Why should patients pay more for less?
How did healthcare, the caring endeavor, become healthcare, the highly profitable industry? Research charities are in bed with big pharmaceutical companies, which surreptitiously profit from the donations made by working people. Patients receive bills in code, from entrepreneurial doctors they never even saw.
The system is in tatters, patients must fight back.
Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal doesn’t just explain the symptoms, she diagnoses and treats the disease itself. In clear & practical terms, she decodes medical doublespeak, avoiding the pharmaceuticals racket, and the care you and your family deserve. She takes you inside the doctor-patient relationship and to hospital C-suites, explaining step-by-step the workings of a system badly lacking transparency.
Navigating it all is confusing and frustrating. An American Sickness is the frontline defense against a healthcare system that no longer has our well-being at heart.
Find it on Amazon here.
Transformed by former Navy Seal Remi Adeleke
What are the odds? Statistics state that African American males in single-parent households are 9 times more likely to drop out of high school. They are also twenty times more likely to end up in prison than any other demographic. But what would it take to rise above those statistics to become a Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, writer, husband, and father?
In Transformed, Remi Adeleke takes you back to stories from his childhood, from living as Nigerian royalty to losing his father early in life and being stripped financially of everything by the Nigerian government.
Remi delves into being raised by a single mother in the Bronx & illegal behavior that threatened his future. At every turn, including throughout his naval career, Adeleke found a way to overcome the odds. His is an inspiring story of true personal transformation.
Find it on Amazon here.
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