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For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from 30 countries to get to the root of this paradox: We’ve left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures countries make to improve the health of their populations – investments in social services.
In The American Health Care Paradox, Bradley and Taylor illuminate how narrow definitions of health care, archaic divisions in the distribution of health and social services, and our allergy to government programs combine to create needless suffering in individual lives, even as health care spending continues to soar. They tell us how, and why, the US health care system developed as it did; examine the constraints on, and possibilities for, reform; and profile inspiring new initiatives from around the world.
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Customers find the book provides good information and interesting analysis on the health care disaster. They describe it as an easy, insightful read that is well-researched yet accessible to anyone. Readers praise the writing quality as clear and easy to understand. The book offers food for thought on health and well-being in America.
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