Timothy Jost

Health Care at Risk

A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes what is wrong with the U.S. health care system, assessing and critiquing the ability of consumer-driven approaches to fix these problems and comparing the U.S. experience with that of other nations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 159mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341246
• ISBN-10: 0822341247
• Artikelnr.: 22960197

Autorenporträt

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1. Our Broken American Health Care System 1
2. The Consumer-Driven Prescription 17
3. Consumer-Driven Health Care Advocates: Who They Are and What They
Believe 27
4. Consumer-Driven Health Care the First Time Around 42
5. The Nonaccidental System 54
6. The Origins of Consumer-Driven Health Care: A Short History of American
Health Economics
7. The Theoretical Foundations of Consumer-Driven Health Care 86
8. But Does It Work? The Evidence for and against Consumer-Driven Health
Care 119
9. Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues Presented by Consumer-Driven
Health Care 150
10. Are Consumers Our Only Hope? How Other Countries Organize Their Health
Care Systems 166
11. How to Fix Our Broken Health Care System: Where Do We Start? 189
Notes 205
Bibliography 225
Index 253