The Price We Pay

A book everyone should read. The author tells all about healthcare in the United States of America. The language is common and the logic is common sense. He reveals it all in great detail. He is bringing conscience and morality into the discussion about healthcare, its policies, its financing and it......more

I almost quit reading this book after the first two or three chapters. Makary's style of writing seemed rather imprecise to me, and having read numerous articles by Atul Gawande, another physician-author who writes impeccably - I was turned off by Makary. (Despite exemplary credentials, as an accomp......more

This was a frustrating read. The data was good; the analysis and conclusions, not so much. The good parts: The data and stories about how much we pay, the inaccessible chargemasters, the opaque billing, CEOs who don't know their ass from their elbow and claim ignorance of how their hospitals operate......more

I learned a lot from the book. His research is varied and pulls the curtain back on a lot of aspects of the health care industry. However, his tone almost made the book unreadable. Between poignant dialogue that no human being has ever said and inserting himself unnecessarily into stories or situati......more

The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It by Marty Makary, MD explores the myriad ways that patients in the United States healthcare system are shaken down to their last pennies by greedy hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, predatory health screenings, surprise bills,......more