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Wiley cost management seriesAllen, Marshall
Summary: "From award-winning ProPublica reporter Marshall Allen, a primer for anyone who wants to fight the predatory health care system--and win. Every year, millions of Americans are overcharged and underserved while the health care industry makes record profits. We know something is wrong, but the layers of bureaucracy designed to discourage complaints make pushing back seem impossible. At least,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610.28 ALLLalli, Frank
Summary: "Inspired by his viral New York Times article, prize-winning investigative journalist Frank Lalli details how he mastered the ins and outs of health care--and how you, too, can get the best care for your money. Frank Lalli, the former editor of Money and George magazines, has devoted his career to getting to the bottom of a good story. When he was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma, a rare but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613 LALMoeller, Philip
Summary: "A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What's Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation's other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money. Social Security provides the bulk of most retirees' income and Medicare guarantees them affordable health insurance. But few people know what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368 MOECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 368 MOEAkers, Paul A.
Summary: 2 Second Lean will flip your world right-side up. It's a practical way to improve your life every day by making a simple 2 second improvement. Join author, business expert, radio show host, and international speaker, Paul A. Akers, as he takes you on a LEAN journey that will transform every aspect your life... from your home to the office
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Publisher / Publication Date: FastCap Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 658.2 AKEAndreas, Joel.
Summary: Cultural Writing. Political Science. Government. Education. ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the United States has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read ADDICTED TO WAR to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355.0213 ANDHuber, John J.
Summary: From the publisher: In the years since John Huber’s trailblazing Lean Library Management was published, budget pressures on libraries have only increased. Yet libraries who have adopted his strategies have turned conventional management thinking—that if budgets are reduced, customer service suffers—on its head. These libraries have proven that by streamlining and improving customer services,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association 2015
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1 available in Reference Office Reference, Call number: OFR 020 HUBSylvester, Kevin.
Summary: Examines how cost is determined in goods, what happens to money once it is used to buy something, and the basics of credit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 330 SYLMoeller, Philip
Summary: "The latest installment in the successful series, Get what's yours for healthcare explains how to get the high-quality healthcare you need at a fair price"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1068 MOEMakary, Marty
Summary: One in five Americans now has medical debt in collections and rising health care costs today threaten every small business in America. Dr. Makary, one of the nation's leading health care experts, travels across America and details why health care has become a bubble. Drawing from on-the-ground stories, his research, and his own experience, The Price We Pay paints a vivid picture of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.4 MAKGordon, Robert J.
Summary: Examines the economic growth of the United States since the Civil War, arguing that the rate of growth between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated and that a number of issues are further stagnating the already slow rate of productivity growth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.3 GORBlackman, Josh.
Summary: " This inside story of the legal challenge to Obamacare from a conservative constitutional lawyer involved in the movement is a brilliant mixture of legal, political, and media intrigue capped by a truly consequential Supreme Court decision"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 344.7302 BLAFreed, Eric Corey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Taunton Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.7 FREGoldhill, David.
Summary: "A visionary and completely original investigation that will change the way we think about health care: how and why it is failing, why expanding insurance coverage will only make things worse, and how it can be transformed into a transparent, affordable,successful system. In 2007, David Goldhill's father died from a series of infections acquired in a well-regarded New York hospital. The bill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.1 GOLMather, Cam
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aztext Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 MATRifkin, Jeremy.
Summary: Describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.12 RIFSilverstein, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 339.47 SILSummary: Maggie, a middle-aged widow, who is desperate to raise money to pay for her grandson's medical bills, takes a hostess job in a sex club.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IRIDerks, Scott
Summary: Library Journal: New Beginnings is what Derks terms the period 2010-14, coverage of which is included in this fifth edition of a straightforward reference. Certainly there are free cost-of-living comparison tools online, but this collection of price history tables for goods, salaries, investments, and various side matter yields riches not to be encountered in single-query searches. For...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grey House Publishing 2014
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 338.52 DERMaloney, Emily
Summary: "What does it cost to live? When we fall ill, our lives are itemized on a spreadsheet. A thousand dollars for a broken leg, a few hundred for a nasty cut while cooking dinner. Then there are the greater costs for even greater misfortunes. The car accidents, breast cancers, blood diseases, and dark depressions. When Emily Maloney was nineteen she tried to kill herself. An act that would not only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.16 MALSweitzer, Gerald W.
Contents: Alabama. Albertville. Cullman. Fairhope. Fort Payne. Hartselle -- Florida. Apalachicola. Defuniak Springs. Deland. Mount Dora. New Smyrna Beach. Stuart -- Georgia. Carrollton. Covington. Dahlonega. Perry. Saint Marys. Saint Simons Island -- Kentucky. Bardstown. Berea. Danville. Franklin. Versailles -- Mississippi. Madison. Ocean Springs. Holly Springs. Oxford. West Point -- North Carolina....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Publishers 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.79 SWEZaitchik, Alexander
Summary: "Owning the Sun tells the story of one of the most contentious fights in human history: the legal right to control the production of lifesaving medicines. Medical science began as a discipline geared toward the betterment of all human life, but the merging of research with intellectual property and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry warped and eventually undermined its ethical foundations....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.10973 ZAISummary: Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Patch 1999Berkowitz, Aaron
Summary: "In the tradition of Tracy Kidder's portrait of Paul Farmer's work in MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS, the story of a young neurologist's struggles over who and how to help patients in Haiti"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BERKOWITZ, AARON BERDaly, John L. (John Lawrence)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2002