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The Health Care Consumer's Manifesto

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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.

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Kindle Book

  • Release date: February 24, 2020

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9798216095057
  • Release date: February 24, 2020

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9798216095057
  • File size: 2274 KB
  • Release date: February 24, 2020

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook

Languages

English

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.

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