Health Care at Risk
A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement
1st Edition
Published on 22. August 2007
284 pages
978-0-8223-9054-1 (ISBN)
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Analyzes what is wrong with the U.S. health care system, assessing and critiquing the ability of consumer-driven approaches to fix these problems and comparing the U.S. experience with that of other nations.
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Timothy Stoltzfus Jost is the Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is the author of Health Care Coverage Determinations: An International Comparative Study and Disentitlement? The Threats Facing Our Public Health-Care Programs and a Rights-Based Response. He is the editor of Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics and a coauthor of Health Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems, now in its fifth edition.
Content
Preface ix
1. Our Broken American Health Care System 1
2. The Consumer-Driven Prescription 17
3. Consumer-Driven Health Care Advocates: Who They Are and What They Believe 27
4. Consumer-Driven Health Care the First Time Around 42
5. The Nonaccidental System 54
6. The Origins of Consumer-Driven Health Care: A Short History of American Health Economics
7. The Theoretical Foundations of Consumer-Driven Health Care 86
8. But Does It Work? The Evidence for and against Consumer-Driven Health Care 119
9. Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues Presented by Consumer-Driven Health Care 150
10. Are Consumers Our Only Hope? How Other Countries Organize Their Health Care Systems 166
11. How to Fix Our Broken Health Care System: Where Do We Start? 189
Notes 205
Bibliography 225
Index 253
1. Our Broken American Health Care System 1
2. The Consumer-Driven Prescription 17
3. Consumer-Driven Health Care Advocates: Who They Are and What They Believe 27
4. Consumer-Driven Health Care the First Time Around 42
5. The Nonaccidental System 54
6. The Origins of Consumer-Driven Health Care: A Short History of American Health Economics
7. The Theoretical Foundations of Consumer-Driven Health Care 86
8. But Does It Work? The Evidence for and against Consumer-Driven Health Care 119
9. Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues Presented by Consumer-Driven Health Care 150
10. Are Consumers Our Only Hope? How Other Countries Organize Their Health Care Systems 166
11. How to Fix Our Broken Health Care System: Where Do We Start? 189
Notes 205
Bibliography 225
Index 253
