Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America

"Comprehensive . . . . anyone with a serious interest in the prices of U.S. healthcare will want to have this rigorous and timely treatment." ―Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

There is little debate that health care in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves?

In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we're overlooking the most ubiquitous cause of our underperforming system:...