The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It by Marty Makary
Published 2021 · 277 pages · 76,175 words · about 4 hours at an average pace · Nonfiction, Politics & Society
How hard is The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It to read?
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It scores 24 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 28 out of 100
- Makary writes for general readers in plain contemporary English, explaining billing and insurance terms as they appear. Medical and policy words arrive with quick definitions, close to the accessible level of Atomic Habits.
- Sentence structure: 28 out of 100
- Sentences are short and declarative, built for quick reading. Anecdotes and statistics are stacked in simple constructions with little subordination.
- Abstraction: 36 out of 100
- Patient stories, hospital bills and dollar figures anchor every claim. The abstract ideas about incentives and market failure stay tied to concrete examples, much like Atomic Habits.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Each chapter delivers many figures, case examples and policy details on pricing, consolidation and insurance. The pace stays manageable, though, and the book restates its main points.
How The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It is regarded
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It holds a literary regard score of 26 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.