The biggest threat to America's prosperity, and even his solvency, is the mismatch between the amazingly and increasingly competent science of medicine and the amazingly and increasingly incompetent pricing and allocation of it. Here come Silver and Hyman to frighten us with the facts, and to point to ways the biggest player in the healthcare game – the government – can stop making matters worse. – George F Will

Overcharged is a detailed, useful, and timely diagnosis for what ails America's healthcare system from a free-market perspective. Anyone interested in how to bring healthcare coverage to more Americans – without agreeing or disagreeing with the author's view of what ails American healthcare – will gain greatly from their penetrating analysis of every facet of the system. Michael Hiltzik