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Choosing and Using Health Insurance
Dental Care
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Financial Anxiety and Vulnerability
Gender Bias in Health Care
Health Care Consumerism and Empowerment
Health Care Price Transparency
Health Care Quality and Innovation
Medicare
Mental Health Care and Therapy
Negotiating Health Care Costs
Obamacare (Affordable Care Act)
Why American Health Care Is So Complicated
Product details
- ISBN 9781440874048
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Feb 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A health care executive at Harvard explains how to become a savvy consumer and get the value we all deserve for our health care spending.
This book navigates and demystifies the confusing world of health care shopping. Readers go on a guided tour inside American health care to learn why it is so messy, and who is invested in keeping it that way. The text offers a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system.
A wake-up call to an industry tenuously holding on to the status quo and ripe for true disruption, this book outlines what consumers can do themselves and demand from doctors, hospitals, health plans, and policy makers to get more for their health care spending and, in so doing, reshape the health care system into one we all deserve. Using real and compelling consumer stories intertwined with expert analysis, this book illustrates why it is so difficult to act as an engaged health care consumer in the United States and pulls back the curtain to expose the forces that hold the system in place.
Deborah Dove Gordon, MBA, is a seasoned health care executive, marketing expert, and thought leader. A senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Business and Government, she conducted extensive research on health care consumerism.
