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A contribution to health care studies and administrative law which offers a humane and practical alternative to the current process of reviewing consumer health care complaints.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kinney, Eleanor D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2002.
Colección:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
Medical policy > United States.
Patients > Civil rights > United States.
Health care reform > United States.
Consumer protection > United States.
Medical policy.
Consumer protection.
Health care reform.
Health insurance.
National health insurance.
Health Policy
National Health Programs
Insurance, Health
Consumer Advocacy
Health Care Reform
Politique sanitaire > États-Unis.
Patients > Droits > États-Unis.
Services de santé > Réforme > États-Unis.
Consommateurs > Protection > États-Unis.
Politique sanitaire.
Assurance-maladie.
Consommateurs > Protection.
Services de santé > Réforme.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
National health insurance
Health insurance
Consumer protection
Health care reform
Medical policy
Patients > Civil rights
Medizin
Recht
Hygiene
Verbraucherschutz
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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