The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less

Elizabeth H. Bradley · Lauren A. Taylor

May 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Emily Durante

About this audiobook

For decades, experts have puzzled over why the US spends more on health care but suffers poorer outcomes than other industrialized nations. Now Elizabeth H. Bradley and Lauren A. Taylor marshal extensive research, including a comparative study of health care data from thirty countries, and get to the root of this paradox: We've left out of our tally the most impactful expenditures countries make to improve the health of their populations-investments in social services. In The American Health Care Paradox, Bradley and Taylor illuminate how narrow definitions of "health care," archaic divisions in the distribution of health and social services, and our allergy to government programs combine to create needless suffering in individual lives, even as health care spending continues to soar. They show us how and why the US health care "system" developed as it did; examine the constraints on, and possibilities for, reform; and profile inspiring new initiatives from around the world.

About the author

Elizabeth H. Bradley is the eleventh President of Vassar College, a role she assumed on July 1, 2017. Elizabeth also holds a joint appointment as Professor of Political Science and Professor of Science, Technology, and Society.

Lauren A Taylor is a doctoral student in the management track of the Health Policy program at Harvard University.

Emily Durante has been narrating audiobooks for over ten years and is also an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook director. She has been acting since the age of seven and has performed in a number of stage productions at the professional, collegiate, and regional levels.