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  • Code Green

    How The Big Lie In Health Care Affects Us All

    by John A. Kellum M.D. ...
    Everyone in America has or will interact with our healthcare system in one way or another, and this book details the ways in which hospital systems are now working to reduce costs by reducing care--often at the expense of patient interests. New "value-based" models, widely embraced by industry and policymakers alike, actually increase this risk. Fortunately, there are ways in which patients, all ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • An American Sickness

    How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

    by Elisabeth Rosenthal ...
    **A New York Times bestseller • A Washington Post Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal and NPR"This book will serve as the definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The GeneAt a moment of drastic political upheaval, An American Sickness is a shocking ... Read more

    Was $14.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

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  • Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

    by Ezekiel J. Emanuel ...
    The preeminent doctor and health policy expert Ezekiel J. Emanuel gives an incisive tour of eleven health care systems across the globe in search of whose is best“Valuable… It’s hard to imagine anyone better suited to rank the world’s health care systems.” —The New York Review of BooksOne thing we can all agree on: the United States does not have the world’s best health care, at least not for all ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Reinventing American Health Care

    How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System

    by Ezekiel J. Emanuel ...
    The definitive story of American health care today -- its causes, consequences, and confusions.In March 2010, the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. It was the most extensive reform of America's health care system since at least the creation of Medicare in 1965, and maybe ever. The ACA was controversial and highly political, and the law faced legal challenges reaching all the way to the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • 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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  • Understanding Health Policy, 7E

    by Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach ...
    Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in itA Doody's Core Title for 2019!The Seventh Edition of Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach remains the most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available and provides everything you need to build a solid foundation on the field’s most critical issues. This concise and engaging textbook clearly explains ... Read more

    $36.49 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

  • Mistreated

    Why We Think We're Getting Good Health Care -- and Why We're Usually Wrong

    by Robert Pearl, MD ...
    The biggest problem in American health care is usDo you know how to tell good health care from bad health care? Guess again. As patients, we wrongly assume the "best" care is dependent mainly on the newest medications, the most complex treatments, and the smartest doctors. But Americans look for health-care solutions in the wrong places. For example, hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Overcharged

    Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care

    by Charles Silver, David A. Hyman ...
    "Overcharged is just what the doctor ordered." —Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, former dean, Harvard Medical SchoolWhy is America's health care system so expensive? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated charges that com out of the blue from out-of-network providers or demands for services that weren't delivered? Why do we pay $600 for EpiPens that contain a dollar's worth of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • In Their Own Words

    12,000 Physicians Reveal Their Thoughts On Medical Practice in America

    by Phillip Miller ...
    In Their Own Words invites you to become “doctor for a day” and see medical practice from the physicians’ perspective. Drawing on one of the largest physician surveys ever undertaken, “In Their Own Words” offers insights from hundreds of doctors, who reveal in candid comments exactly how they feel about being physicians and why it matters to patients. Read why: Close to half of all doctors plan to ... Read more

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