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1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations |
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data file rda |
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Print version record |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Your healthcare, their money -- How we experience exposure -- Our empty pockets -- What we owe -- Fixes we could try -- What we must do |
| Summary |
"In Exposed, Christopher Robertson looks at a widely-shared point of agreement in the political battle over how to reshape U.S. healthcare: Nearly all sides believe that health insurance coverage should be incomplete. Driven by a particular economic theory of valuation, the law now reflects this consensus that patients should bear a substantial part of the costs of their own healthcare. In theory, this strategy empowers patients to make cost-benefit tradeoffs as they decide which healthcare to consume, and it could thereby be a force for efficiency in a healthcare system that is rife with waste. But, in fact, this approach to financing healthcare can erode the very purposes of insurance, as it keeps people from valuable care and drives patients into bankruptcy. Contrary to the traditional economic theory of "moral hazard," Robertson identifies the real problems driving wasteful healthcare spending as a lack of good scientific evidence about what healthcare works. Exposed develops an alternative economic framework to understand the real purpose of insurance, pooling resources to provide access to care that would otherwise be unaffordable to individuals"-- Provided by publisher |
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Health insurance -- United States.
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Medical care, Cost of -- United States.
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Health care reform -- United States.
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National Health Insurance, United States.
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LAW -- Health.
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Health care reform. (OCoLC)fst00952850
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Health insurance. (OCoLC)fst01715839
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Medical care, Cost of. (OCoLC)fst01013902
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Robertson, Christopher T., 1975- Exposed. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 9780674972162 (DLC) 2019016987 (OCoLC)1089958937 |
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9780674243156 PDF |
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0674243153 PDF |
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9780674243170 EPUB |
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067424317X EPUB |
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9780674243163 MOBI |
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0674243161 MOBI |
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