The following are five of the most highly-recommended books there are to learn more about the US healthcare system. Each documents:
- the rise of the American healthcare system
- the reasons for its many challenges
- the most probable courses of action to improving it
America’s Bitter Pill: Money Politics Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Health Care System by Steven Brill
This book is a detailed tell-all of how the Affordable Care Act was developed, executed, and largely inefficient at tackling the lack of accountability for corrupt healthcare industry practices. The book documents Brill’s initial recognition of the ongoing exploitative practices of healthcare industry officials for profit. It follows with to the subsequent establishment of the ACA as a spirited but largely ineffective initiative to combat it.
This book provides detailed documentation of how the ambitious aims of the ACA was stopped in its tracks by territorial politics and staff members’ failure to deliver.
Overtreated by Shannon Brownlee
This book is Brownlee’s account of the unhealthy level of dependence that the American population suffers from due to unnecessary medical intervention. The book examines the hefty economical toll that unnecessary healthcare has. It also looks at also the widespread damage done the population’s collective health. The book explores the idea that while the problem of unnecessary healthcare is very well-known, many lack either the leverage, understanding or incentive to resolve it.
Reinventing American Healthcare by Ezekiel Emanuel
This book is a chronicle of the establishment, fallout, and resulting chaos of the American healthcare system. The book covers the establishment of the ACA, documenting the extensive reformation’s:
- legal hurdles
- political impact
- consequences
The book is both a historical account and an open discussion of the nature of American healthcare’s controversial nature.
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became a Big Business by Elizabeth Rosenthal
This book was written to:
- investigate the origins of American healthcare
- dissect its operations
- draw educated inferences about its future
The book provides a detailed breakdown of the American healthcare system’s:
- total cost
- dangers
- current trajectory
- possible solutions that may have the most realistic chances to improving it
The Innovators Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Healthcare by Clayton M. Christensen and Jason Hwang
This book is a call to action for what Christensen and Hwang believe to be the most feasible plan to redeem the US healthcare system. The book works to outline the full extent of the healthcare system’s most prominent failures and the chains of events that made such shortcomings possible.
The book acknowledges the issues. It prescribes measures that could be taken to help the American healthcare system become an asset to the American people instead of a begrudgingly tolerated hindrance. The book’s main school of thought is the idea that the primary hope for the American healthcare system is innovation. The authors support their proposal for innovative American healthcare reform by referencing older healthcare systems around the world that were heavily regulated before being reformed.