Patient Power : Solving America's Health Care Crisis

by John C. Goodman; Gerald Musgrave

• ISBN13: 9780932790910
• ISBN10: 0932790917
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-10-01
• Publisher: Natl Book Network

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
America's Health Care Crisis	p. 3
Two Competing Visions of the Health Care System	p. 19
Moving toward the Ideal: An Agenda for Change	p. 37
Using the Agenda to Solve Problems	p. 75
From Competition to Cost-Plus Health Care
How the Cost-Plus System Evolved	p. 137
How the Cost-Plus System Works	p. 163
Opting Out of the Cost-Plus System	p. 191
Cost-Plus Finance and Low-Deductible Health Insurance	p. 231
Cost-Plus Medicine and the Tax Law	p. 263
Regulating the Cost-Plus System
Increasing Government Control over the Price and Quantity of Medical Care	p. 285
Regulation of Health Insurance by State Governments	p. 323
Mandating Employer-Provided Health Insurance	p. 355
The Chain-Letter Economics of Medicare
Health Care after Retirement	p. 387
The Uneasy Case for Medicare	p. 423
Privatizing Medicare with Medical IRAs	p. 439
National Health Insurance
Paying for National Health Insurance	p. 463
National Health Insurance in Other Countries	p. 477
The Politics of Medicine	p. 551
Dismantling the Cost-Plus System
The International Trend toward Privatization of Health Care	p. 587
Meeting the Needs of Underserved Populations	p. 611
Conclusion	p. 647
Index	p. 659
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