Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care

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―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

• The False Promise of Single-Payer Health Care (Encounter Broadsides)
• The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor
• Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
• An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
• The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
• The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It
• Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six-Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost (Hoover Institution Press Publication)
• Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
• The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
• Discrimination and Disparities