Managed Care Mag August 5, 2019
Don’t expect politicians to ride to the rescue, says the author of a book that examines just what went wrong and how we can fix it. He puts his faith in entrepreneurs, among others.
Marty Makary, MD, is a surgeon and professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins. But for two years, he ventured out of the operating room and academe to examine the problems inflaming American health care with hidden prices, added expense, and overtreatment. In his forthcoming book, The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—And How To Fix It, Makary identifies people and approaches, including his own Improving Wisely program, that he believes can remedy the situation. Don’t look to politics and...