40 Results for : profiteering
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The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 606min
Did you know.... Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America, killing more Americans each year than diabetes, murders, car accidents, and AIDS combined. An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices - like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc. The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial. The FDA lets device manufacturers decide whether to report serious complications or deaths that may have been caused by their products. The average salary and compensation package for CEOs of the 18 publicly traded medical device companies in the US was $1.3 million and $15.4 million respectively as of 2015. In The Danger Within Us, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer brings these horrifying statistics to life through the story of one working-class man who, after his "cure" nearly kills him, ends up in a battle for justice against the medical establishment. His crusade leads Lenzer on a journey through the dark underbelly of the medical device industry, a fascinating and disturbing world that hasn't been written about before. What Lenzer exposes will shock listeners: rampant corruption, elaborate cover-ups, shameless profiteering, and astonishing lack of oversight, all of which leads to dangerous devices (from artificial hips to pacemakers) going to market and into our bodies. In the vein of America's Bitter Pill and A Civil Action, The Danger Within Us is a meticulously researched and propulsive listen that will fill you with anger and indignation, a stirring call for reform, and a must-listen for anyone who cares about the future of American health care. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeanne Lenzer. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/003606/bk_hach_003606_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Defending the Undefendable , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 484min
Professor Block's book is among the most famous of the great defenses of victimless crimes and controversial economic practices, from profiteering and gouging to bribery and blackmail. However, beneath the surface, this book is also an outstanding work of microeconomic theory that explains the workings of economic forces in everyday events and affairs. Murray Rothbard explains why: "Defending the Undefendable performs the service of highlighting, in the fullest and starkest terms, the essential nature of the productive services performed by all people in the free market. By taking the most extreme examples and showing how the Smithian principles work even in these cases, the book does far more to demonstrate the workability and morality of the free market than a dozen sober tomes on more respectable industries and activities. By testing and proving the extreme cases, he all the more illustrates and vindicates the theory. "F.A. Hayek agreed, writing the author as follows: "Looking through Defending the Undefendable made me feel that I was once more exposed to the shock therapy by which, more than fifty years ago, the late Ludwig von Mises converted me to a consistent free market position. Even now I am occasionally at first incredulous and feel that 'this is going too far,' but usually find in the end that you are right. Some may find it too strong a medicine, but it will still do them good even if they hate it. A real understanding of economics demands that one disabuses oneself of many dear prejudices and illusions. Popular fallacies in economics frequently express themselves in unfounded prejudices against other occupations, and in showing the falsity of these stereotypes you are doing a real service, although you will not make yourself more popular with the majority." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeff Riggenbach. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/ludw/000007/bk_ludw_000007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the Civil War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 980min
In a single definitive narrative, City of Sedition tells the spellbinding story of the huge - and hugely conflicted - role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort - or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and matériel for the war, and no city raised more hell against it. It was a city of patriots, war heroes, and abolitionists but simultaneously a city of antiwar protest, draft resistance, and sedition. Without his New York supporters, it's highly unlikely Lincoln would have made it to the White House. Yet because of the city's vital and intimate business ties to the Cotton South, the majority of New Yorkers never voted for him and were openly hostile to him and his politics. Throughout the war New York City was a nest of antiwar "Copperheads" and a haven for deserters and draft dodgers. New Yorkers would react to Lincoln's wartime policies with the deadliest rioting in American history. The city's political leaders would create a bureaucracy solely devoted to helping New Yorkers evade service in Lincoln's army. Rampant war profiteering would create an entirely new class of New York millionaires, the "shoddy aristocracy". New York newspapers would be among the most vilely racist and vehemently antiwar in the country. Some editors would call on their readers to revolt and commit treason; a few New Yorkers would answer that call. They would assist Confederate terrorists in an attempt to burn their own city down and collude with Lincoln's assassin. Here, in City of Sedition, a gallery of fascinating New Yorkers comes to life - the likes of Horace Greeley, Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Boss Tweed, Thomas Nast, Matthew Brady, and Herman Melville. This book follows the fortunes of these figures and chronicles how many New Yorkers seized the opportunities the conflict presented to amass capital, create new industries, and expand their mar ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Boyett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/002608/bk_hach_002608_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1030min
New York Times best seller. A New York Times notable book.America’s Bitter Pill is Steven Brill’s acclaimed book on how the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, was written, how it is being implemented, and, most important, how it is changing - and failing to change - the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry. It’s a fly-on-the-wall account of the titanic fight to pass a 961-page law aimed at fixing America's largest, most dysfunctional industry. It's a penetrating chronicle of how the profiteering that Brill first identified in his trailblazing Time Magazine cover story continues, despite Obamacare. And it is the first complete, inside account of how President Obama persevered to push through the law, but then failed to deal with the staff incompetence and turf wars that crippled its implementation. But by chance America’s Bitter Pill ends up being much more - because as Brill was completing this book, he had to undergo urgent open-heart surgery. Thus, this also becomes the story of how one patient who thinks he knows everything about health-care “policy” rethinks it from a hospital gurney - and combines that insight with his brilliant reporting. The result: a surprising new vision of how we can fix American health care so that it stops draining the bank accounts of our families and our businesses and the federal treasury. Praise for America’s Bitter Pill: “A tour de force...a comprehensive and suitably furious guide to the political landscape of American healthcare...persuasive, shocking.” (The New York Times)“An energetic, picaresque, narrative explanation of much of what has happened in the last seven years of health policy.... [Brill] has pulled off something extraordinary.” (The New York Times Book Review)“A thunderous indictment of what Brill refers to as the ‘toxicity of our profiteer-dominated healthcare system.’” (Los Angeles Times) / ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dan Woren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004069/bk_rand_004069_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Inside the Hotel Rwanda: The Surprising True Story…and Why It Matters Today , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
In 2004, the Academy Award-nominated movie Hotel Rwanda lionized hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina for single-handedly saving the lives of all who sought refuge in the Hotel des Mille Collines during Rwanda’s genocide against the Tutsi in 1994. Because of the film, the real-life Rusesabagina has been compared to Oskar Schindler, but unbeknownst to the public, the hotel’s refugees do not endorse Rusesabagina’s version of the events. In the wake of Hotel Rwanda’s international success, Rusesabagina is one of the most well-known Rwandans and now the smiling face of the very Hutu Power groups who drove the genocide. He is accused by the Rwandan prosecutor general of being a genocide negationist and funding the terrorist group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). For the first time, learn what really happened inside the walls of Hotel des Mille Collines. In Inside the Hotel Rwanda, survivor Edouard Kayihura tells his own personal story of what life was really like during those harrowing days within the walls of that infamous hotel and offers the testimonies of others who survived there, from Hutu and Tutsi to UN peacekeepers. Kayihura writes of a divided society and his journey to the place he believed would be safe from slaughter. The book exposes the Hollywood hero of the film Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina, as a profiteering and politically ambitious Hutu Power sympathizer who extorted money from those who sought refuge, threatening to send those who did not pay to the génocidaires, despite pleas from the hotel’s corporate ownership to stop. Inside the Hotel Rwanda is at once a memoir, a critical deconstruction of a heralded Hollywood movie alleged to be factual, and a political analysis aimed at exposing a falsely created hero using his fame to be a political force, spouting the same ethnic apartheid that caused the genocide two decades ago. Kayihura’s Inside the ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mirron Willis, Rosalind Ashford. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/018837/bk_adbl_018837_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Bruins' Peak Bears Box Set (Volume II) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1242min
The second installment of the Bruins' Peak Bears stories. Audiobooks six to 10! Can be listened to as a stand-alone, but I recommend listening to audiobooks zero through five first. Audiobook six: Melody It’s the biggest wedding in Bruin history as Marla Dunlap and Walker Cunningham tie the knot, but Fate determines a different outcome than everyone expects. Right before the ceremony, the three young Dunlap boys catch a black panther in the woods on Bruins’ Peak. They drag it back to Dunlap Homestead and lock it in the basement. At the last second, right before Marla and Walker head down the aisle, the panther shifts into a young man. Marla recognizes Riley Faulkner, the bear-baiter who kidnapped and almost killed her. Melody Mackenzie finds herself caught in a tangled web of politics, danger, and intrigue. Riley is an enemy of her people: dangerous, calculating, profiteering for Bruin lives. How can she stand to get near him with Walker howling for Riley’s blood? Against her will, she falls under his hypnotic spell. His pitch black soul radiates power, sexual energy, and everything forbidden. Melody ought to kill him right now, but her Destiny decrees her future lies with him. Must Melody turn against all her family and friends to find her heart’s true mate? How can she survive being torn away from Bruins’ Peak? How can she live without the love of her life? Audiobook seven: Briar What happened to Riskin Dodd after Mattox Farrell defeated him in an Alpha challenge? Where did Riskin go when Mattox drove him away, bleeding and crippled? What became of Riskin after Lyric Mackenzie broke his heart to marry Mattox? Briar MacAllister hasn’t been the same since Melody Mackenzie ran away from Marla Dunlap’s wedding to join the Midnight panther shifters. Briar cherished the same romantic notions about finding her one true mate. After the Melody disaster, Briar’s not so sure anymore. All that ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Standley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/117095/bk_acx0_117095_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Reiki for Beginners: A Self-Healing & Meditation Guide: Unlock the Secrets of Aura Cleansing: How to Use Crystals & Chakras to Improve Health, Body & Life and to Increase and Balance Your Energy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 192min
What are some of the ways you heal your body? Doctor’s visits, prescription drugs, and over the counter medications? Are you someone who prefers the advice of a social worker or counselor over your own intuition and personal wisdom? Have you ever considered that a great deal of your healing process is in your own hands and that you have the power to heal yourself? Do you know where healing comes from and how it works to take healing into your own hands and make it work for you? All around the world, people are looking for alternatives to the Big Medicine profiteering and the lack of personal care that we so often find in the medical industry. You can learn a very simple technique that doesn’t just put a band-aid on the symptoms; it goes straight to the source of the problem and destroys it on the energetic level. Reiki is an energy treatment and it always looks straight at the source of the problem. Whether it is emotional, physical, mental, or spiritual, Reiki is a therapy system designed by a Japanese Buddhist named Mikao Usui who, through a spiritual awakening, discovered an amazing method to help all people discover the path to healing the self.The purpose of Usui’s work was to show all people that they can take their healing into their own hands and learn how to become a channel of healing energy. The concepts of Reiki are based on the ancient practices and principles of Buddhism and Hinduism but possibly date even further back than that.The science behind our energy is still being studied, but thousands and thousands of people are healing their chronic disease, emotional trauma, cancers, mental illness, physical problems, common ailments, and deeply rooted wounds form the past with this miraculous energy healing technique.There are plenty of ways that Reiki will teach you how to look through your own wisdom to find the source of your pain and need for healing and guide you all the way along the path. Y ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Elise Black. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/180213/bk_acx0_180213_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Public Health Profiteering
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Public Health Profiteering
Public Health Profiteering: ab 40.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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