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The Price We Pay

What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It

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The Price We Pay

By: Marty Makary MD
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system - and the people who are saving it.

One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen and a series of elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.

The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well - a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.

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Eye-opening Insights • Practical Solutions • Excellent Narration • Comprehensive Analysis • Well-researched Information

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Deep and relevant insights into our health care .

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The subject of pricing of heath care will make you sick. Dr. Malady exposes a health care system gone wild with price gouging, procedure mark ups and the filing of lawsuits for those who cannot pay. Where is the humanity?

Price of Health Care Can Make You Sick

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Everyone should read this in order to understand how perverse the current system is and how we are screwed at every turn. It is a call to action.

Great explanation of the problems in U.S Healthcare

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He doesn’t show favorites, and he give real, actionable solutions to some of the biggest problems facing modern medicine. All with the unwavering optimism we need to win. Loved every second of it.

Best book of the subject

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“Sunshine is a great disinfectant” can be a metaphor for the economics of American healthcare. We doctors focus to the science but have let the business of healthcare slip away. When one in five Americans is in debt due to medical bills it is time to redesign the system. This book is a wonderful step to learn how to shed light on this problem. It gives practical steps to optimize healthcare to improve access for patients in a culturally sensitive manner.

Medicine needs sunshine

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