Download Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement Pdf

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2007-08-22
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0822341247
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Health Care at Risk pdf
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In Health Care at Risk Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, a leading expert in health law, weighs in on consumer-driven health care (CDHC), which many policymakers and analysts are promoting as the answer to the severe access, cost, and quality problems afflicting the American health care system. The idea behind CDHC is simple: consumers should be encouraged to save for medical care with health savings accounts, rely on these accounts to cover routine medical expenses, and turn to insurance only to cover catastrophic medical events. Advocates of consumer-driven health care believe that if consumers are spending their own money on medical care, they will purchase only services with real value to them. Jost contends that supporters of CDHC rely on oversimplified ideas about health care, health care systems, economics, and human nature.In this concise, straightforward analysis, Jost challenges the historical and theoretical assumptions on which the consumer-driven health care movement is based and re Download Health Care at Risk for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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