Health Care at Risk

Author: Timothy Stoltzfus Jost
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0822341247
Category: Medical

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

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. Download Health Care at Risk medical books for free.
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 o Get Health Care at Risk our bestseller medical books.

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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 Jost contends that supporters of CDHC rely on o

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