14 best-selling science books like The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It by Marty Makary

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The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It

By: Marty Makary

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom t…

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Cover of America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System by Steven Brill

1. America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

By: Steven Brill

3.98

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

America's Bitter Money, Politics, Back-Room Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare Syst… read more

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"[Ted] Cruz railed against his fellow senators for not appreciating the risk that Obamacare would destroy healthcare for America’s families ... Cruz then lodged a more general complaint against his Se…"

-Steven Brill, America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

Cover of Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease by Gary Taubes

2. Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

By: Gary Taubes

4.17

Format: 601 pages, Hardcover

For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a… read more

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"[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic or simply better technology for diagnosis."

-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

"The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century"

-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

"Cohen testified that there was no 'direct relationship' linking heart disease to dietary fats, and that he had been able to induce the same blood-vessel complications seen in heart disease merely by …"

-Gary Taubes, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease

Cover of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid

3. The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

By: T.R. Reid

3.47

Format: 156 pages,

In The Healing of America, New York Timesbestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other indu… read more

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Cover of Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It by David Goldhill

4. Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It

By: David Goldhill

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health ca… read more

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Cover of An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back by Elisabeth Rosenthal

5. An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

By: Elisabeth Rosenthal

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller "The definitive guide to the past and future of health care in America.… read more

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Cover of What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine by Danielle Ofri

6. What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine

By: Danielle Ofri

4.10

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A look at the emotional side of medicine--the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love t… read more

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Cover of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

7. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

By: Atul Gawande

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more

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8. Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership

By: John C. Maxwell

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

John Maxwell, America's #1 leadership authority, has mastered the art of asking questions, using th… read more

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Cover of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett

9. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

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Cover of Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity by Peter Attia

10. Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

By: Peter Attia

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challeng… read more

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Cover of Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban

11. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

By: Katherine Eban

4.42

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health dev… read more

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Cover of The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

12. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Cover of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health by Anupam B. Jena

13. Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

By: Anupam B. Jena

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Does timing, circumstance, or luck impact your health care? This groundbreaking book reveals the hi… read more

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14. The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It

By: Marty Makary

4.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A must-read for every American and business leader." --Steve Forbes, editor-in-chief, FORBESFrom t… read more

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Cover of Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care by Uwe E. Reinhardt

15. Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care

By: Uwe E. Reinhardt

4.33

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From a giant of health care policy, an engaging and enlightening account of why American health car… read more

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Cover of We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care by Liran Einav

16. We've Got You Covered: Rebooting American Health Care

By: Liran Einav

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a MacArthur Genius ​MIT economist and pre-eminent Stanford economist comes a lively and provoc… read more

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Cover of Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care? by Ezekiel J. Emanuel

17. Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

By: Ezekiel J. Emanuel

3.82

Format: 611 pages, Kindle Edition

The preeminent doctor and bioethicist Ezekiel Emanuel is repeatedly asked one Which country has th… read more

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Cover of Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win by Marshall Allen

18. Never Pay the First Bill: And Other Ways to Fight the Health Care System and Win

By: Marshall Allen

4.28

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the p… read more

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Cover of Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again by Eric J. Topol

19. Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

By: Eric J. Topol

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Science Friday pick for book of the year, 2019 One of America's top doctors reveals how AI wil… read more

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Cover of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder

20. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

By: Ernest Scheyder

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more

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Cover of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler

21. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

By: Adam Winkler

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-k… read more

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11 must-read economics books like The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It by Marty Makary

Transform Your Habits

America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System

Steven Brill

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care

T.R. Reid

3.47

Transform Your Habits

Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It

David Goldhill

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health

Anupam B. Jena

3.68

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9 Top politics books like Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It by David Goldhill

Transform Your Habits

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

4.15

Transform Your Habits

No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Glenn Greenwald

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It

David Goldhill

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

Andrew Ross Sorkin

4.54

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