This expose of the US health care system uncovers the dark side of physician practice. Using interviews with doctors and federal, state and private officials, it reveals the practices of doctors who profit from needless surgery, overcharge for services and test excessively.
"A sound, well written, and highly interesting examination of how Medicaid . . . has given far too many physicians an opportunity to 'mop up' fraudulently, for their own financial gain, some of the $61 billion annual cost of the program."-Marshall B. Clinard, author of The Abuse of Corporate Power
"A searching analysis of a problem that is of enormous concern to every nation. It is a lively, insightful treatment of the Medicaid malady, using the best diagnostics available to contemporary criminology."-John Braithwaite, Australian National University
