Thom Hartmann, "The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich" (Berrett-Koehler, 2021)
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The Origins of Black Death in the United States
The genesis of this largely goes back to the late 18 hundreds. A young german manby the name of ludig, exceding frederick, ludwig hoffmann travelled from germany united states at the age of 17. He was a genius with numbers, and he got a job with the prudential life insurance company,. And started running numbers on on things that would interest them in terms of writing life insurance policies. In fact, he's the guy who discovered the statistical association between tobacco smoking a ad lung cancera. Between exposure to aspestus and mesotheliomaa between a fibrosis of the lungs. So those theories really influenced
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