Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much

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Length- 37 minutes, 29 seconds

Ms. Maggie Mahar

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney interviews Ms. Maggie Mahar, author of Money Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much.

Before becoming a financial journalist, Maggie Mahar was an English professor at Yale University, teaching 19th and 20th century poetry and prose. In 1982, she began covering financial markets, freelancing for Money magazine, Institutional Investor, and the New York Times, before joining Barron's as a senior writer in 1986.  There she wrote cover stories about Wall Street and Washington, specializing in profiles and investigative pieces. 

In 1998,  she wrote a column about international markets and economics for Bloomberg.  And in 2003, she published "Bull! A History of the Boom, 1982- 1999" a book that Warren Buffet recommended in Berkshire-Hathway's 2003 annual report.