The U.S. health care system, distilled into 390 readable pages for people who need to understand it rather than administer it.

Shi and Singh’s Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System, Sixth Edition, condenses their larger work Delivering Health Care in America into an undergraduate-friendly survey. It covers how the system is organised, how it is financed, who delivers care and who pays for it — with updated data throughout and new material on the direction of health reform.