The biggest threat to America’s prosperity, and even its solvency, is the mismatch between the amazingly and increasingly competent science of medicine and the amazingly and increasingly incompetent pricing and allocation of it. Now come Silver and Hyman to frighten us with the facts, and to point to ways the biggest player in the health care game—the government—can stop making matters worse.

– George F. Will, Washington Post

"Overcharged" is a detailed, useful, and timely diagnosis of what ails America's health care system.

– Michael Hiltzik, Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist, Los Angeles Times

Read this insightful book. . . . you'll be better prepared to offer compassionate solutions to our system's cries of cost and value.

– Gregg Bloche, Georgetown University Law Center

As CEO of Whole Foods, which spent more than $250 million on health care for our team members last year, I thought I knew how inefficient health care was. Overcharged opened my eyes to how truly dysfunctional America's health care system has become. This is not capitalism. Capitalism forces me to spend every day trying to provide greater value at a lower price. Silver and Hyman show that health care does not work that way—not because health care is special, but because Americans have let government and insurers control our health care dollars, and more of the same will only make things worse. Change will come, but only when consumers control their health care dollars and begin exerting massive pressure from below.

– John Mackey, founder and CEO, Whole Foods