Dr. Marty Makary’s new book calls out US’ healthcare for being too expensive

Americans are losing faith in their doctors, says Dr. Marty Makary in his new book, The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care — and How to Fix It. The cause, he argues, is that medical care is just too costly.

A surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University, Makary states that hospitals' predatory financial practices — such as hospitals that prosecute their patients for unpaid bills or hit patients with un....