Abantika Ghosh

Games Hospitals Play (eBook, ePUB)

Decoding Your Private Healthcare Experience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Navigating India's private healthcare system can feel like playing a Sisyphean and rigged game.

In Games Hospitals Play, veteran health journalist and public policy professional Abantika Ghosh exposes the shadowy economics of India's private healthcare industry. This isn't a story of a few rotten eggs - it is a systemic breakdown exposing how patient vulnerability is the fodder for the profit-driven healthcare industry. Mining through a mountain of court documents, backed by insider accounts and investigative reports, Ghosh decodes hidden markups, surge pricing for surgeries, unnecessary procedures, and corporate pressures that turn every illness into a profit opportunity. She reveals how hospital packages are designed like experiential commodities, why your insurance policy might not be enough and how over-testing has become a tool for revenue generation. A playbook to fight back, Games Hospitals Play is a call to action for every patient, caregiver, policymaker and healthcare professional who believes health ought not to be a commodity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789361310447
• Artikelnr.: 76043811

Autorenporträt

Abantika Ghosh is a journalist and public policy professional who has worked in the health space for two decades, working closely with government and private stakeholders as well as public health experts. She has reported from remote parts of India while working with The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Print and The Statesman.

Her first book, Billions Under Lockdown: The Inside Story of India's Fight Against COVID-19, was longlisted for the Tata Lit Fest Non-Fiction Debut Book Award as well as for the AutHer Awards. Abantika lives in New Delhi with three dogs.