Looking for an up to date book critiquing the American healthcare system.
Just as the title says. Looking for a book that gives a broad overview of everything wrong with the American healthcare system and proposes solutions (if there are any) to solve them.
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal is a book that exposes how the U.S. healthcare system transformed from a service to a profit-driven industry, detailing the roles of hospitals, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies in creating high costs and a lack of transparency. Rosenthal, a physician and journalist, explains the system’s dysfunction through concepts like strategic pricing, hospital consolidation, and “upcoding,” while also offering practical advice for patients to navigate the system and advocate for reform.
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I haven’t read it, but I think this got good reviews: Jonathan Cohn’s book The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage. It was published in 2021.
There’s a book coming out this year by Miranda Yaver, a professor of health policy at the University of Pittsburgh: Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States.
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An American Sickness
An American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal is a book that exposes how the U.S. healthcare system transformed from a service to a profit-driven industry, detailing the roles of hospitals, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies in creating high costs and a lack of transparency. Rosenthal, a physician and journalist, explains the system’s dysfunction through concepts like strategic pricing, hospital consolidation, and “upcoding,” while also offering practical advice for patients to navigate the system and advocate for reform.
I haven’t read it, but I think this got good reviews: Jonathan Cohn’s book The Ten Year War: Obamacare and the Unfinished Crusade for Universal Coverage. It was published in 2021.
There’s a book coming out this year by Miranda Yaver, a professor of health policy at the University of Pittsburgh: Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States.