From the New York Times bestselling author comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America’s broken health care system—and the people who are saving it—now with a new Afterword by the author.
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.
Publisher: Macmillan
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 304 pages
ISBN-10: 1635575915
Item Weight: 0.7 lbs
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.3 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 31 to 100 ratings
"Over the course of decades, American 'health care' lost the care component and devolved to a big, wasteful business. In The Price We Pay, Makary undertakes an extensive listening tour and astutely deconstructs how this occurred and what we need to do about it." --Eric Topol, MD, editor in chief of Medscape "A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor in chief, Forbes "The Price We Pay is stuffed with examples of predatory billing, confusing costs and statistics that could make you despondent. But there's plenty of honesty, problem-solving and hope to leaven all that despair." --Washington Post
Marty Makary, MD, MPH, is a surgeon and Professor of Health Policy at Johns Hopkins University and the author of the NYT bestseller Unaccountable. A leading voice for physicians in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today, he was the lead author of the articles introducing a surgical checklist, later adapted by the W.H.O. He served in leadership at the W.H.O. Safe Surgery Saves Lives project and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. He lives in the Washington DC area.
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