Understanding Health Policy and Economics
1. 
The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
by:
Paul Starr
4.17 avg rating — 1,378 ratings 2. 
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
by:
T.R. Reid
4.26 avg rating — 7,621 ratings 
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Your Money or Your Life: Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System
by:
David M. Cutler
3.80 avg rating — 114 ratings 5. 
The Health Care Handbook - A Clear and Concise Guide to the American Health Care System
by:
Elisabeth Askin
4.12 avg rating — 538 ratings 6. 
Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 754 ratings
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The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States
by:
Jacob S. Hacker
3.70 avg rating — 60 ratings 7. 
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Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis---and the People Who Pay the Price
by:
Jonathan Cohn
3.79 avg rating — 610 ratings 10. 
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Butchered by "Healthcare": What to Do About Doctors, Big Pharma, and Corrupt Government Ruining Your Health and Medical Care
by:
Robert A. Yoho
4.50 avg rating — 107 ratings 12. 
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by:
Atul Gawande
4.28 avg rating — 51,628 ratings 13. 
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
by:
Randy Shilts
4.39 avg rating — 28,866 ratings 14. 
Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans
by:
Wendell Potter
4.15 avg rating — 1,010 ratings 14. 
Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
by:
Jonathan Gruber
3.79 avg rating — 462 ratings 16. 
Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle over Health Care Reform
by:
Paul Starr
3.86 avg rating — 298 ratings 17. 
Affordable Healthcare Act Handbook for Small Business: Help for small businesses
by:
S.J. Olsen
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 17. 
ePatient 2015: 15 Surprising Trends Changing Health Care
by:
Rohit Bhargava
3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings 17. 
Something From Eddie: Getting to know Eddie Livingston, WWII Vet, ex-POW, Activist, Visionary, Writer...
by:
Pam Baker
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 17. 
Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
by:
Judith N. Lasker
4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings 17. 
Catastrophic Care: How American Health Care Killed My Father—and How We Can Fix It
by:
David Goldhill
3.99 avg rating — 674 ratings 17. 
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back 4.30 avg rating — 7,912 ratings
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Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care
by:
Marty Makary
4.30 avg rating — 1,646 ratings 17. 
A World Undivided: A Quest for Better Healthcare Beyond Geopolitics
by:
Joseph Saba
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 25. 
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century 4.01 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health-Care Law-The Affordable Care Act-and What It Means for Us All 3.59 avg rating — 317 ratings
25. 
America's Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
by:
Steven Brill
3.98 avg rating — 3,054 ratings 
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Who Shall Live? Health, Economics, and Social Choice (Expanded Edition) (Economic Ideas Leading to the 21st Century)
by:
Victor R. Fuchs
4.18 avg rating — 77 ratings 30. 
The Social Medicine Reader, Vol. 3: Health Policy, Markets, and Medicine 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results 3.90 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Getting Health Reform Right: A Guide to Improving Performance and Equity
by:
Marc J. Roberts
4.04 avg rating — 53 ratings 36. 
Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn against Government
by:
Theda Skocpol
3.65 avg rating — 46 ratings 37. 
The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
by:
Haynes Johnson
4.05 avg rating — 143 ratings 
39. 
Broken Promises: Fraud by Small Business Health Insurers
by:
Robert Tillman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
41. 
American Medicine and the Public Interest
by:
Rosemary Stevens
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 43. 
The Cost Disease: Why Computers Get Cheaper and Health Care Doesn't 3.71 avg rating — 173 ratings
44. 
In Sickness and in Wealth: American Hospitals in the Twentieth Century
by:
Rosemary Stevens
3.94 avg rating — 32 ratings 
46. 
The Future U.S. Healthcare System: Who Will Care for the Poor and Uninsured?
by:
Stuart H. Altman
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 47. 
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It
by:
Marty Makary
4.46 avg rating — 4,169 ratings 48. 
The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care
by:
David Gratzer
3.55 avg rating — 76 ratings 