Health Care at Risk A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement

Name: Health Care at Risk A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
Price: 6.71 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780822341246

ISBN-10: 0822341247

ISBN-13: 9780822341246

Edition: 2007

Authors: Timothy Jost

List price: $27.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $29.17

Marketplace

4 new & used from $6.71

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

In "Health Care at Risk" Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting the American health care system. The idea behind CDHC is simple: consumers should be encouraged to save for medical care with health savings accounts, rely on these accounts to cover routine medical expenses, and turn to insurance only to cover catastrophic medical events. Advocates of consumer-driven health care believe that if consumers are spending their own money on medical care, they will purchase only services with real value to them.…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 8/22/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



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


Bibliography


Index