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

Author(s)

• Jost, Timothy Stoltzfus

Bibliographic Information

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

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Duke University Press, c2007

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliography and index

Contents of Works

• 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 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?

Details

• NCID: BA83700047
• ISBN:
  • 9780822341246
• LCCN: 2007007937
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Durham
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 265 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RA394
  • NLM : W 84 AA1
  • DC22 : 362.10973
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Health planning -- United States -- Citizen participation
  • LCSH : Medical care -- United States -- Cost control
  • LCSH : Medical care, Cost of -- United States
  • LCSH : Health care reform -- United States
  • MESH : Delivery of Health Care -- United States
  • MESH : Consumer Participation -- United States
  • MESH : Cost Sharing -- United States
  • MESH : Health Care Reform -- United States