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Protecting American health care consumers
- Title
- Protecting American health care consumers / Eleanor DeArman Kinney.
- Author
- Kinney, Eleanor D.
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
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- Description
- x, 277 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-259) and index.
- 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 mechanisms 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. Contract 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 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.
- Call Number
- JBE 03-188
- ISBN
- 0822328763 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001008586
- OCLC
- 48670273
- Author
- Kinney, Eleanor D.
- Title
- Protecting American health care consumers / Eleanor DeArman Kinney.
- Imprint
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-259) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JBE 03-188