The Price We Pay

What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It

By: Marty Makary MD

Narrated by: Marty Makary MD

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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Great info for the lay person and the professional. I will recommend this to friends family coworkers!

a book worth reading

great insights into our medical, care delivery systems. told in an interesting way.

how did we get here? super reading. absorbing too.

Great informative book

This is a really important book. The Big Short for healthcare Let's take these lessons and change direction.

Great information, I wish more within healthcare would read and heed.

Many excellent points were brought up, from Medical education, to use of plain English from Doctor to Patient

Great Read

A great vantage point of American healthcare and it’s disparities. So many truths in this write up.