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Protecting American health care consumers
Author
Title
Protecting American health care consumers / Eleanor DeArman Kinney.
ISBN
0822328763 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
Physical Description
x, 277 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 08, 2003
Contents
1. Introduction
The theoretical context for procedural protections
The scope of the book
2. The patient protection debate
Private reform proposals
Government initiatives
Making sense of the debate
3. Health insurance coverage in the United States
Historical development of the American health insurance system
The universe of private health insurance coverage
The universe of public health insurance programs
The problem of the uninsured
4. Relevant law and theory
Regulatory law
Corporate and tax law
Administrative law
Contract law
Tort law
5. The universe of consumer concerns about health care
A typology of consumer concerns
Tapping and resolving consumer concerns about health care
Institutional mechanism for tapping consumer concerns
6. The universe of medical standards and other policies regarding health care
The health-care quality revolution and medical standardsetting
Organizations that make health-care policies
A taxonomy of health-care policies
7. Processes for making policies regarding health care
Processes for making policies regarding the content and quality of health care
Policymaking regarding access to health-care services
Policymaking regarding the cost of health-care services
Policymaking and dissemination: the example of diabetes
8. Regimes for tapping and resolving consumer concerns about health care
Extralegal institutions for tapping and resolving consumer concerns
Internal, external, and administrative review
Judicial review
Tort causes of action
Statutory causes of actions
9. Principles of sound procedural protections
Principles of sound policymaking procedures
Principles for better ways to tap and resolve consumer concerns about health care
A call for better empirical information about consumer concerns
10. A vision of true reform
More definite allocation of regulatory responsibility
Policymaking reforms
Reforms for tapping and resolving consumer concerns about health care
The limits of procedural justice without distributive justice.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Health Policy - United States.
Consumer Advocacy - United States.
Health Care Reform - United States.
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