I have no axe to grind. Where did I admit that? Is it simply by saying that I've lived through regimes where worker power was itself a (if not _the_) problem? For what it's worth, I am generally on the left end of the spectrum; certainly economically if not socially.
Your source generally disputes the framing of the book but not the facts. Do you have evidence that the facts I cited about Lincoln Hospital’s expenses, lack of accounting controls, and death and drug abuse rates among providers are incorrect?
Oh, it disputes a lot of the facts, too. So do at least some of the people who gave interviews to Burroughs, interviews whose content the interviewees later described his having misquoted or in places outright fabricated.
Do you have any reasonably sturdy evidence that the claims you made are correct? Until you can prove them, you have cited no facts, but only made claims. Those claims are yours to support. Asking me to prove a negative doesn't really accomplish anything in that regard.
Please point me to where in the article Dan Berger claims the book’s facts about Lincoln Hospital are wrong. Until then, I am inclined to trust the fact checking apparatus of Penguin Books over your vague suspicions. I’m not asking you to prove a negative; my claims about the hospital were specific, falsifiable, and straight from a book printed by a reputable publisher.
I'm still not sure why I should be regarding Burrough's account as more likely to be true to historical fact than all of the other accounts I've been able to find. If nothing else, he, and you, have got an uphill battle in convincing anyone that his account is right, and everyone else's is wrong. You don't seem to recognize that. Perhaps he does. You seem to be quite familiar with the book; maybe he's more willing to support the claim than you so far have been, and has something better to offer than simple assertion. If you don't want to go to the trouble of trying to find references of your own, why not at least copy out whatever on the subject can be found in his bibliography?
You’re right - I should have offered a source. You can reference the extensive reporting here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/307365/days-of-rage...