Health care at risk : a critique of the consumer-driven movement / Timothy Stoltzfus Jost.

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

xviii, 265 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-251) and index.

Our broken American health care system -- The consumer-driven prescription -- Consumer-driven health care advocates: who they are and what they believe -- Consumer-driven health care the first time around -- The nonaccidental system -- The origins of consumer-driven health care: a short history of American health economics -- The theoretical foundations of consumer-driven health care -- But does it work? the evidence for and against consumer-driven health care -- Legal, ethical, and regulatory issues presented by consumer-driven health care -- Are consumers our only hope? how other countries organize their health care systems -- How to fix our broken health care system: where do we start?