In Our Malady, historian Timothy Snyder shares his personal journey of struggling to navigate America’s healthcare system during a serious illness, providing shocking insights into racial and income inequality that continue to plague Americans. This book serves as a warning to citizens everywhere that greed can corrupt medicine and produce a decline in life expectancy. Don’t think of this as an American crisis; think of it as a greed crisis that can happen anywhere.

This post was originally published on Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and Sarah Kendzior.