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Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Why is medical care in the United States so expensive? For decades, Americans have taken it as a matter of faith that we spend more because we have the best health care system in the world. But as costs levitate, that argument becomes more difficult to make. Today, we spend twice as much as Japan on health care-yet few would argue that our health care system is twice as good.
Instead, startling new evidence suggests that one out of every three of...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the warped world of prescription drug pricing, generic drugs can cost more than branded ones, old drugs can be relaunched at astronomical prices, and low-cost options are shut out of the market. In Drugs, Money and Secret Handshakes, Robin Feldman shines a light into the dark corners of the pharmaceutical industry to expose a web of shadowy deals in which higher-priced drugs receive favorable treatment and patients are channeled toward the most...
Author
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"While building trends may change, one thing does not: the need to build quality homes at affordable prices. And in today's building market, sustainability is an important part of building homes that last so homeowners can keep long-term costs down. Building an Affordable House, 2nd edition helps readers do that with insight from the people who work in the field every day. Building expert Fernando Pages-Ruiz knows that from a homebuilder's perspective,...
