Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America

by David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns

Book Overview

There is little debate that health care in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves? In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we're overlooking the most ubiquitous cause of our costly and underperforming system: megaproviders, the expansive health care organizations that have become the face of American medicine. Your local hospital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022682392X
• ISBN13: 9780226823928
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"