Health care at risk : a critique of the consumer-driven movement / Timothy Stoltzfus Jost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jost, Timothy S.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumer-driven health care--United States.

Consumer-driven health care.

Medical care--United States--Cost control.

Medical care.

Medical care, Cost of--United States.

Medical care, Cost of.

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface

Our broken American health care system

The consumer-driven prescription

Consumer-driven health care advocates : who they are and what they believe

Consumer-driven health care the first time around

The nonaccidental system

The origins of consumer-driven health care : a short history of American health economics

The theoretical foundations of consumer-driven health care

But does it work? The evidence for and against consumer-driven health care

Legal, ethical, and regulatory issues presented by consumer-driven health care

Are consumers our only hope? How other countries organize their health care systems

How to fix our broken health care system : where do we start?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-251) and index.

ISBN:

9786613035639

9780822341017

0822341018

9781283035637

1283035634

OCLC:

271177789