Overcharged Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
03.07.2018
Verlag
Cato InstituteSeitenzahl
592
Maße (L/B/H)
22.8/15.1/3.5 cm
Gewicht
809 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-944424-76-3
"Overcharged is just what the doctor ordered." —Jeffrey S. Flier, MD, former dean, Harvard Medical School
Why is the American health care system so dysfunctional and expensive? Why does the EpiPen, containing $1 worth of medicine, cost $600? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated and surprise charges that come out of the blue from out-of-network providers, or that demand payment for services that weren't delivered? 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 misspent? What are the causes of spiraling costs, mediocre quality, and limited access?
Overcharged details how the answers to these questions are connected and reveals a system that performs as if it had been designed to spend as much money as it can, and to be as confusing and unfriendly as possible, with no accountability. Overcharged then exhaustively details real reforms—showing how health care can become more efficient and pro-consumer when it is subjected to the competitive forces that apply to the rest of the economy, and will only get better and cheaper when consumers exert pressure from below.
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