Consumerism and Value Creation in American Healthcare

by Gary Fradin

What makes our healthcare system better? What makes it worse? Gary Fradin explores these issues in Consumerism and Value Creation in American Healthcare. He shows that employer based financing and various tax and subsidy programs decrease system value by adding costs without improving health. Supply side reforms aimed at changing physician behavior, he argues, never seem to achieve their desired results. But programs that teach consumers how to choose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1329102282
• ISBN13: 9781329102286
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 11.0"