Health care at risk : a critique of the consumer-driven movement /

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Author / Creator:Jost, Timothy S.
Imprint:Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Description:xviii, 265 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6484999
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ISBN:9780822341017 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822341018 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822341246 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822341247 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-251) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Our Broken American Health Care System
  • 2. The Consumer-Driven Prescription
  • 3. Consumer-Driven Health Care Advocates: Who They Are and What They Believe
  • 4. Consumer-Driven Health Care the First Time Around
  • 5. The Nonaccidental System
  • 6. The Origins of Consumer-Driven Health Care: A Short History of American Health Economics
  • 7. The Theoretical Foundations of Consumer-Driven Health Care
  • 8. But Does It Work? The Evidence for and against Consumer-Driven Health Care
  • 9. Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues Presented by Consumer-Driven Health Care
  • 10. Are Consumers Our Only Hope? How Other Countries Organize Their Health Care Systems
  • 11. How to Fix Our Broken Health Care System: Where Do We Start?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index