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• Title:Health care at risk : a critique of the consumer-driven movement / Timothy Stoltzfus Jost.
  
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• Author/Creator:Jost, Timothy S.
  
• Published/Created:Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W84 .AA1 J67 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W84.AA1 J67 2007
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Health planning--United States--Citizen participation.
  Medical care--United States--Cost control.
  Medical care, Cost of--United States.
  Health care reform--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Delivery of Health Care--United States.
  Consumer Participation--United States.
  Cost Sharing--United States.
  Health Care Reform--United States.
  
• Description:xviii, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-251) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780822341017 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780822341246 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. Our broken American health care system
  2. consumer-driven prescription
  3. Consumer-driven health care advocates : who they are and what they believe
  4. Consumer-driven health care the first time around
  5. nonaccidental system
  6. origins of consumer-driven health care : a short history of American health economics
  7. theoretical foundations of consumer-driven health care
  8. But does it work? : the evidence for and against consumer-driven health care
  9. Legal, ethical, and regulatory issues presented by consumer-driven health care
  10. Are consumers our only hope? : how other countries organize their health care systems
  11. How to fix our broken health care system : where do we start?