Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much For Health Care
Book Details
Author(s)Hyman, David A.
PublisherCato Institute
ISBN / ASIN1944424768
ISBN-139781944424763
AvailabilityIn Stock.
Sales Rank115,235
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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
