Book One · Kindle eBook
Before the Counter
The Hidden Story Behind America's Prescription Drug Prices
About the book →The Complete Library
Books
Eleven books, one continuous investigation into American healthcare — how it's priced, how it's financed, how public trust in it collapsed and was reshaped, and what the evidence says should replace it. Organized below by collection.
The American Healthcare Investigation
The Trilogy
From a single pharmacy receipt to the architecture of the entire system — the three-book documentary investigation that started it all. Read the trilogy overview →
Book Two · Kindle eBook
Behind the System
How Financial Incentives Reshaped American Healthcare
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Book Three · Kindle eBook
Beyond Reform
Designing the Future of American Healthcare Financing
About the book →Two Investigations, One Crisis
Science Under Siege
How public trust in the CDC collapsed during COVID-19, and how the NIH, CDC, and HHS were reshaped in 2025. Read both investigations →
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Broken Trust
COVID-19 and the Cost of Certainty
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When Science Became Political
The Crisis Inside NIH, CDC, and HHS
About the book →The Case for Single-Payer
Replace, Don't Reform & One Card, One Cure
The diagnosis and the drafted blueprint. See the full policy case →
Kindle eBook · 2026
Replace, Don't Reform
A twelve-chapter citizen's guide to what went wrong with American healthcare financing, and what would fix it — not the same book as the trilogy's Beyond Reform.
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One Card, One Cure
The Washington Health Trust and the Plan to Heal American Healthcare
Read the eBook →Standalone Investigations
Hostile Takeover & Unnecessary Deaths
Two independent investigations, each with a companion Substack and YouTube channel. Explore all the media →
Kindle eBook · 2026
Hostile Takeover
How Wall Street and Congress Hijacked American Healthcare and How We Can Take It Back
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Kindle eBook · 2025
Unnecessary Deaths
How the Trump Administration Undercut(s) Global and US Health Care and Medical Science
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Kindle eBook · 2025 · Companion volume
Unnecessary Deaths: A Thesis in Five Pillars
Built around five converging failures driving preventable American mortality today — the urgent companion to the original investigation.
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Rigged at the Counter
A citizen's guide to why U.S. prescription drugs cost what they do — the source behind much of the Prescription Drugs research guide.
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Rigged at the Counter
The PBM rebate machinery, the 2003 law that bars Medicare from negotiating, and the six levers any Congress could pull to close the gap.
New here? The overview ties every book together.