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Overcharged : Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care by Charles Silver, David A. Hyman is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Overcharged : Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care about?

Why is America's health care system so expensive? Why do hospitalized patients receive bills laden with inflated charges that com out of the blue from out-of-network providers or demands for services that weren't delivered? Why do we pay $600 for EpiPens that contain a dollar's worth of medicine? 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 otherwise misspent?Overcharged answers these questions. It shows that America's health care system, which replaces consumer choice with government control and third-party payment, is effectively designed to make health care as expensive as possible. Prices will fall, quality will improve, and medicine will become more patient-friendly only when consumers take charge and exert pressure from below. For this to happen, consumers must control the money. As Overcharged explains, when health care providers are subjected to the same competitive forces that shape other industries, they will either deliver better services more cheaply or risk being replaced by someone who will.

Who reads Overcharged : Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care?

Author

Charles Silver, David A. Hyman

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781944424763

Category

business

Subjects

Medical, Political Science, Management

Rating

4.6 / 5 (102 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14