The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Marty Makary MD (Author, Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
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From the New York Times best-selling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system - and the people who are saving it. 

One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of price-gouging, middlemen and a series of elusive money games in need of a serious shake-up. Dr Makary shows how so much of health care spending goes to things that have nothing to do with health and what you can do about it. Dr Makary challenges the medical establishment to remember medicine's noble heritage of caring for people when they are vulnerable.

The Price We Pay offers a road map for everyday Americans and business leaders to get a better deal on their health care and profiles the disruptors who are innovating medical care. The movement to restore medicine to its mission, Makary argues, is alive and well - a mission that can rebuild the public trust and save our country from the crushing cost of health care.

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  1. Listening Length
    9 hours and 29 minutes
  2. Author
    Marty Makary MD
  3. Narrator
    Marty Makary MD
  4. Audible release date
    31 January 2020
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Audible Studios
  7. ASIN
    B0845WKWQM
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Listening Length 9 hours and 29 minutes
Author Marty Makary MD
Narrator Marty Makary MD
Whispersync for Voice Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date 31 January 2020
Publisher Audible Studios
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0845WKWQM
Best Sellers Rank 32,473 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
2 in Health Insurance (Books)
9 in Insurance (Audible Books & Originals)
35 in Clinical Medicine

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5.0 out of 5 stars Perspective from Outside the USA - from the UK and Australia
Reviewed in Australia on 6 June 2020
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This book is an absolute must read for anyone involved in health care provision, world wide. The American approach to health care has universally been viewed as obscene, as how can health care provision be a for-profit business?
The red necked right wing in the USA carp on endlessly about the horrors of "socialist medicine" - which is actually the provision of health care to those who need it, rather those who can afford it.
I think there are a few fundamentals that should define a country as "First World" - education for all, health for all, real freedom to go about your daily life without fear, and provision for our societies elders who have given the country so much for so long. America provides none of these - education is expensive, health care is for profit, complete lack of gun control now has schoolkids doing "active shooter" sims in class rooms, and the elderly who are not wealthy just die out.
The USA is third world in everything except except armed power.
God help us all!
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D. Hill
5.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening paradigm shift
Reviewed in the United States on 5 February 2024
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Even with being in the Biopharmaceuticals industry for almost 30 years, this was an INCREDIBLE eye opening experience. What I learned from reading this book continues to complete the overall healthcare system system from research to patient application (and all in between) which is complex, groundbreaking, altruistic, crooked and often rogue.

I like that he not only provided examples but organizations and tools we can all use in our healthcare journey.

The book is well worth the time spent reading it!
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Larry Drader
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Read
Reviewed in Canada on 27 January 2023
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Liked just about everything about the book, it lays out all the financial abuses relating to heslthcare
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William E. Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary Expose
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 February 2023
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{topnotch review of what's wrong with American Medicine
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good as everything Marty does!
Reviewed in the United States on 24 January 2024
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This was a great analysis of the healthcare system as well as a recommendation of solutions that could dig us out of the healthcare crisis that we dug ourselves into! It's great to see healthcare professional out of the caliber of Marty Makary so well and just analyze the problem and healthcares but finding solutions.
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John Collins
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read...
Reviewed in Canada on 29 April 2020
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Must read for anyone looking to understand the US healthcare system. A shocking, infuriating, but ultimately hopeful look at how free market forces can bring positive change to an industry ripe with grey-area corruption and greed
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