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Can We Say No? The Challenge of Rationing Health Care Dr. Henry J. Aaron and Dr. William B.Schwartz with Dr. Melissa Cox Brookings Institution Press, 2005 |
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Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much Maggie Mahar HarperCollins, 2006 |
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Over-diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Dr. Lisa Schwartz and Dr. Steven Woloshin Beacon Press, 2011 |
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Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee Bloomsbury, 2007 |
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Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not and Here’s Why Dr. H. Gilbert Welch University of California Press, 2004 |
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Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System Dr. Daniel Calahan Princeton University Press, 2009 |
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The Health Care Mess: How We Got into It and What It Will Take to Get Out Dr. Julius Richmond and Dr. Rashi Fein Harvard University Press, 2005 |
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Tracking Medicine: A Researcher’s Quest to Understand Health Care Dr. John Wennberg Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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Waste and Inefficiency in the U.S. Health Care System Dr. Jules Delaune and Dr. Wendy Everett New England Health Care Institute, 2008 |
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Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America Dr. Nortin Hadler University of North Carolina Press, 2008 |
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