eBook - ePub

Overcharged

Name: Overcharged
ISBN: 9781944424770

Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care

Charles Silver,

David A. Hyman,

582 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

Overcharged

Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care

Charles Silver,

David A. Hyman,

About this book

Why 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 medicine? Why is more than $1 trillion - one out of every three dollars that passes through the system - lost to fraud, wasted on services that don't help patients, or otherwise misspent?

Overcharged answers these questions. It shows that America's health care system, which replaces consumer choice with government control and third-party payment, is effectively designed to make health care as expensive as possible. Prices will fall, quality will improve, and medicine will become more patient-friendly only when consumers take charge and exert pressure from below. For this to happen, consumers must control the money. As Overcharged explains, when health care providers are subjected to the same competitive forces that shape other industries, they will either deliver better services more cheaply or risk being replaced by someone who will.

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