Patient Power
Solving America's Health Care Crisis
Published on 1. October 1992
696 pages
978-1-937184-26-1 (ISBN)
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Argues for a health care system that would restore power and responsibility to the individual consumer and taking it out of the hands of government and insurance companies
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John C. Goodman | Gerald Musgrave
Patient Power
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10/1992
Cato Institute
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Content
- PATIENT POWER
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- 1. America's Health Care Crisis
- 2. Two Competing Visions of the Health Care System
- 3. Moving toward the Ideal: An Agenda for Change
- 4. Using the Agenda to Solve Problems
- Part II From Competition to Cost-Plus Health Care
- 5. How the Cost-Plus System Evolved
- 6. How the Cost-Plus System Works
- 7. Opting Out of the Cost-Plus System
- 8. Cost-Plus Finance and Low-Deductible Health Insurance
- 9. Cost-Plus Medicine and the Tax Law
- Part III Regulating the Cost-Plus System
- 10. Increasing Government Control over the Price and Quantity of Medical Care
- 11. Regulation of Health Insurance by State Governments
- 12. Mandating Employer-Provided Health Insurance
- Part IV The Chain-Leiter Economics of Medicare
- 13. Health Care after Retirement
- 14. The Uneasy Case for Medicare
- 15. Privatizing Medicare with Medical IRAs
- Part V National Health Insurance
- 16. Paying for National Health Insurance
- 17. National Health Insurance in Other Countries
- 18. The Politics of Medicine
- Part VI Dismantling the Cost-Plus System
- 19. The International Trend toward Privatization of Health Care
- 20. Meeting the Needs of Underserved Populations
- 2l. Conclusion
- Index
