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“bela biro”

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  • We All Die - Healthcare Insiders Pull no Punches on Our Failed System

    by Bela Biro, Jim Cunningham ...
    An exposé of a broken system including powerful and deeply personal stories. Authors Bela Biro and Jim Cunningham, healthcare insiders, share their own experiences and those of others to illustrate the devastating impact of the U.S. healthcare system on individuals and families. They reveal how this "system" fails the nation as a whole, and they call for radical change and provide a roadmap for a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Delusional lamenters

    by Bíró Béla ...
    In Eastern Europe, communism is in its heyday. The impact of the politically motivated division of territory following the Trianon peace treaty is still being felt decades later, especially in Transylvania, where there is a strong attempt to "integrate" the Hungarians living there, with the more distant goal of completely transforming their national identity, i.e. assimilating them. But the people ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

    by Clayton Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. Jason Hwang ...
    A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . .Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.We need a cure, and we need it now.Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Price We Pay

    What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It

    by Marty Makary ...
    New York Times bestsellerBusiness Book of the Year**--Association of Business Journalists**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.**"A must-read for every American." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESOne in fiv... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't

    by William J. Baumol, Monte Malach, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Lillian Gomory Wu ...
    The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Truth About Getting Sick in America

    The Real Problems with Health Care and What We Can Do

    by Tim Johnson ...
    In today’s world, there are many hot-button topics that generate equal parts debate and confusion. At the top of that list is healthcare. For most Americans, finding out “the truth” about current problems or possible fixes is virtually impossible amidst all the emotionally charged rhetoric. Dr. Tim Johnson has been reporting on health matters for ABC since the mid-seventies, but in recent years he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Harvard Business Review on Fixing Healthcare from Inside & Out

    by Harvard Business Review ...
    How can management cure health care's ills?If you need the best practices and ideas for transforming health care--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.The HBR articles in this collection propose several remedies:- Organizing doctors into teams- Focusing incentives on patients' recovery- Saving lives and dollars by ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Catastrophic Care

    How American Health Care Killed My Father--and How We Can Fix It

    by David Goldhill ...
    A visionary investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding coverage will actually make things worse, and how our health care can be transformed into a transparent, affordable, successful system.In 2007, David Goldhill’s father died from infections acquired in a hospital, one of more than two hundred thousand avoidable deaths per year ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Healthcare Investing: Profiting from the New World of Pharma, Biotech, and Health Care Services

    by Les Funtleyder ...
    Is your portfolio in peak health?Ranking among the world's largest markets, the $2.5 trillion health care industry is growing at an unprecedented rate. According to Miller Tabak + Co.'s health care strategist Les Funtleyder, major structural renovations to the system are imminent. “Health care is entering an era of reform,” Funtleyder writes, “and with reform comes change and the opportunity for ... Read more

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  • Trade-Offs

    An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social Issues

    by Harold Winter ...
    How economists analyze real-world issues from overeating to organ transplants: "A wonderful introduction to economics for the layperson." — ChoiceWhen economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or budget deficits, they do so by incorporating an impersonal, detached mode of reasoning. But economists also analyze issues that, to others, typically do not fall within the realm of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Uncaring

    How the Culture of Medicine Kills Doctors and Patients

    by Robert Pearl, MD ...
    Doctors are taught how to cure people. But they don’t always know how to care for them.Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days. Patients are getting sicker and going bankrupt from medical bills. Doctors are burning out and making dangerous mistakes. Both parties blame our nation’s outdated and dysfunctional healthcare system. But that’s only part of the problem.In this important ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Better Health Economics

    An Introduction for Everyone

    by Tal Gross, Matthew J. Notowidigdo ...
    An ideal entry point into health economics for everyone from aspiring economists to healthcare professionals.The economics of healthcare are messy. For most consumers, there’s little control over costs or services. Sometimes doctors are paid a lot; other times they aren’t paid at all. Insurance and drug companies are evil, except when they’re not. If economics is the study of market efficiency, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD