American Health Care

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    • Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less
    • By: Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor, Harvey V. Fineberg
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. This audiobook examines the research, including a comparative study of health care data from 30 countries, to get to the root of this paradox....

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    • How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
    • By: John Abramson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 248 ratings
    • The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health....

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    • What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
    • By: Marty Makary MD
    • Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 933 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Doctor's Quest to Piece Together American Health Care
    • By: Ilana Yurkiewicz MD
    • Narrated by: Ilana Yurkiewicz MD
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • There's an assumption when we go to see a doctor: the doctor knows our medical story and is making decisions based on that story. But reality often falls short. Ilana Yurkiewicz reveals how a system that doesn't talk to itself puts insupportable burdens on physicians, patients, and caregivers....

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    • Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Series: The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Popular progressive radio host and New York Times best-selling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to establish affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality....

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    • How the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System
    • By: Ezekiel J. Emanuel
    • Narrated by: William Dufris
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Ezekiel J. Emanuel has written a brilliant diagnostic explanation of why health care in America has become such a divisive social issue....

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    • MegaTrends, Movements, and Market Disruptors Transforming American Healthcare
    • By: Zeev Neuwirth
    • Narrated by: Zeev E. Neuwirth MD
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Unlike many other books in this genre, the focus is on what’s right in American health care rather than on what’s wrong. It is practical, actionable, and rooted in a realistic understanding of the industry's challenges and opportunities....

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    • How We Lost Our Health Care System
    • By: Robert W. Derlet
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
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    • Over the past three decades, the once-efficient American health care system has evolved into a complex maze of monopolies and a racket of bureaucratic checks, approvals, denials, roadblocks, and detours....

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    • Hope and Peril in American Medicine
    • By: Ricardo Nuila MD
    • Narrated by: Ricardo Nuila MD
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People’s Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila’s stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians....

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    • How to deliver world class healthcare to your employees at half the cost
    • By: Dave Chase
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Most CEOs, HR leaders, and others have been led to believe that controlling health benefits costs isn't possible. The CEO's Guide to Restoring the ...

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    • Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry
    • By: Scott Higham, Sari Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created and fueled the opioid crisis....

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    • Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
    • By: Harriet A. Washington
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • A "powerful and indispensable book" (Gerald Markowitz) on the devastating consequences of environmental racism - and what we can do to remedy its toxic effects on marginalized communities....

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine
    • By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • A bizarre, rollicking trip through the world of fringe medicine, filled with leeches, baking soda IVs, and, according to at least one person, zombies: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling examines the growing universe of non-traditional treatments....

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    • The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
    • By: Howard Markel
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 16 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Howard Markel tells the sweeping saga of two extraordinary men, whose lifelong competition and enmity toward one another changed America's notion of health and wellness from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries, and who helped change the course of American medicine, nutrition, wellness, and diet....

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    • A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
    • By: Anne Fadiman
    • Narrated by: Pamela Xiong
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,085 ratings
    • When three-month-old Lia Lee arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion....

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    • 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul
    • By: Oludara Adeeyo
    • Narrated by: Angel Pean
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • Prioritize your well-being with these 150 self-care exercises designed specifically to help Black women revitalize their outlook on life, improve their mental health, eliminate stress, and self-advocate....

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    • How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
    • By: Elisabeth Rosenthal
    • Narrated by: Nancy Linari
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 989 ratings
    • Award-winning New York Times reporter Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal reveals the dangerous, expensive, and dysfunctional American health-care system....

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