LEADER 02953nam 22004335 450 001 9910793972003321 005 20200406050111.0 010 $a0-300-24919-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300249194 035 $a(CKB)4100000009751729 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5969322 035 $a(DE-B1597)542092 035 $a(OCoLC)1138496480 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300249194 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009751729 100 $a20200406h20202019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSick to Debt $eHow Smarter Markets Lead to Better Care /$fPeter A. Ubel 210 1$aNew Haven, CT : $cYale University Press, $d[2020] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (215 pages) 311 $a0-300-23846-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tIntroduction: Another Book About Healthcare? -- $t1. Can Americans Shop Their Way to More Affordable Care? -- $t2. Shopping in the Dark -- $t3. Who's in Charge? The Surprising Truth About Medical Decisions -- $t4. What Patients and Doctors Talk About When They Talk About Money -- $t5. The End of Life and the Limits of Healthcare Markets -- $t6. Shining a Light on Healthcare Prices -- $t7. Pricing Healthcare to Refl ect Value -- $t8. Coverage for What Counts -- $t9. Empowering Life-and-Death Decisions -- $t10. Simplifying Insurance Choices -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aAn informed argument for reworking the broken market?'based U.S. healthcare system by making cost and quality more transparent   The United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world. While policy makers have argued over who is at fault for this, the system has been quietly moving toward high?'deductible insurance plans that require patients to pay large amounts out of pocket before insurance kicks in. The idea behind this shift is that patients will become better consumers of healthcare when forced to pay for their medical expenses.   Laying bare the perils of the current situation, Peter A. Ubel-a physician and behavioral scientist-notes that even when patients have time to shop around, healthcare costs remain largely opaque, difficult to access, and hard to compare. Arguing for a middle path between a market?'based and a completely free system, Ubel envisions more transparent, smarter healthcare plans that tie the prices of treatments to the value they provide so that people can afford to receive the care they deserve. 606 $aMedical economics$zUnited States 615 0$aMedical economics 676 $a338.4736210973 686 $aQX 780$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aUbel$b Peter A., $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0145611 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793972003321 996 $aSick to Debt$93865665 997 $aUNINA