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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorerby: Shannon Brownlee  List Price: $16.00 Amazon.com's Price: $10.88 You Save: $5.12 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 610 EAN: 9781582345796 Edition: 1 ISBN: 1582345791 Label: Bloomsbury USA Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: September 02, 2008 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Release Date: September 02, 2008 Studio: Bloomsbury USA Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: “My choice for the economics book of the year…it’s the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve—but is so often misunderstood.”—David Leonhardt, New York Times Our health care is staggeringly expensive, yet one in six Americans has no health insurance. We have some of the most skilled physicians in the world, yet one hundred thousand patients die each year from medical errors. In this gripping, eye-opening book, award-winning journalist Shannon Brownlee takes readers inside the hospital to dismantle some of our most venerated myths about American medicine. Brownlee dissects what she calls “the medical-industrial complex” and lays bare the backward economic incentives embedded in our system, revealing a stunning portrait of the care we now receive. Nevertheless, Overtreated ultimately conveys a message of hope by reframing the debate over health care reform. It offers a way to control costs and cover the uninsured while simultaneously improving the quality of American medicine. Shannon Brownlee’s humane, intelligent, and penetrating analysis empowers readers to avoid the perils of overtreatment, as well as pointing the way to better health care for everyone. With a new afterword offering practical advice to patients on how to navigate the health care system. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Thought-provokingThis book obviously presents only one side of the issues it addresses, but the information is still useful. As I read through each chapter, I was forced to consider my own beliefs about health care as well as the flaws in the current system. While not objective, Overtreated is a good addition to your health care reform reading list. Rating:  - tremendous bookThis is just a great book. I have long thought that health insurance costs are way out of line because we are just made to have too many procedures and tests. This has become protocol and everyone has bought into it. I've read many books and articles lately that show that all this testing has not actually produced more health among Americans. Not to mention the fact that this approach also makes us all feel that we are not healthy, and makes us fearful all the time of what may be wrong and what the ... Read More Rating: - Excellent book!This is an excellent book detailing how pharmaceutical companies have fostered over-medication on the public in the name of profits. Rating: - Root cause for spiraling health care costs in the USThis country has spent a lot of time agonizing over health care delivery and costs ever since medicare was introduced in the 1960's. Since then, health care costs have increased at rates much higher than inflation causing health care to become unaffordable to many people and a huge economic burden on US businesses that must supply health care insurance to their employees. The way things are headed, Medicare will soon be insolvent (it's a much bigger problem than social security) and even more people ... Read More Rating:  - Healthcare System MisdiagnosisThe author clearly documents how our healthcare system frequently wastes resources on unnecessary scans and procedures due to a number of reasons including, demands of the patient, doctor's personal beliefs in a procedure, and the economic incentive of more procedures resulting in more profit. From the author's perspective, over treatment is the problem and the solution is better assessments of what scans and treatments are needed, part of which includes communication between the doctor and ... Read More 
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