Health care at risk
Subtitle: a critique of the consumer-driven movement
By: Timothy Stoltzfus Jost.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822341017; 9780822341246
Subjects: Health planning -- United States -- Citizen participation; Medical care -- United States -- Cost control; Medical care, Cost of -- United States; Health care reform -- United States; Delivery of Health Care -- United States; Consumer Participation -- United States; Cost Sharing -- United States; Health Care Reform -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Our broken American health care system; title: The consumer-driven prescription; title: Consumer-driven health care advocates: who they are and what they believe; title: Consumer-driven health care the first time around; title: The nonaccidental system; title: The origins of consumer-driven health care: a short history of American health economics; title: The theoretical foundations of consumer-driven health care; title: But does it work?: the evidence for and against consumer-driven health care; title: From professional and patient to merchant and consumer; title: Are consumers our only hope?: how other countries organize their health care systems; title: How to fix our broken health care system.