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- catalog abstract "In today's bureaucratic health care system, the patient's major role is to sign the forms that authorize one large, impersonal organization to release funds to another, argue John Goodman and Gerald Musgrave. Government, through Medicare and Medicaid, buys close to half the health care provided in America today. Most of the other half is paid for by insurance companies, because the tax laws encourage people to rely on first-dollar health coverage from their employers. When health care appears to be free or very cheap, people buy more than they would if they were paying the full cost. The resulting casual attitude toward shopping for health care drives up prices, which drives up insurance premiums, which creates hardship for business and those without insurance. That spiral eventually harms all users of health care. The Goodman and Musgrave solution is to restore power and responsibility to individual consumers. If individuals are allowed to deduct the cost of their own insurance, they will have a stake in finding the best insurance value. Most consumers will discover that high-deductible insurance is a far better buy than low-deductible policies because the cost of handling small claims exceeds the benefits. Goodman and Musgrave propose that consumers be free to set up tax-free medical savings accounts to cover routine medical expenses. Since the money in those accounts would be the property of individuals, they would have an incentive to spend wisely on health care. The money not spent would accumulate tax-free interest that could be used to meet health care and other needs after retirement. Thus, medical savings accounts are a way of privatizing Medicare too. The result of this proposal would be a cost-conscious private system of competition and innovation. At the center would be the consumers, whose freedom of choice and responsibility would bring to the medical marketplace the value, innovation, and efficiency found in other markets. Goodman and Musgrave's message is that just as government planning failed so spectacularly in the communist world, so it will fail - indeed, already has failed - in America's health care system. "Play or pay" government schemes and full-blown national health insurance would only aggravate the worst problems of the current system. Patient Power demonstrates that market-oriented reform is the only way out of the mess. It is the comprehensive survey of health care.".
- catalog contributor b3995623.
- catalog contributor b3995624.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "America's health care crisis -- Two competing visions of the health care system -- Moving toward the ideal: an agenda for change -- Using the agenda to solve problems -- How the cost-plus system evolved -- how the cost-plus system works -- opting out of the cost-plus system -- Cost-plus finance and low-deductible health insurance -- Cost-plus medicine and tax law -- Increasing government control over the price and quantity of medical care -- Regulation of health insurance by state governments -- Mandating employer-provided health insurance --Health care after retirement -- The uneasy case for medicare -- Privatizing medicare with medical IRAs -- Paying for national health insurance -- National health insurance in other countries -- The politics of medicine -- The international trend toward privatization of health care -- Meeting the needs of underserved populations -- Conclusion.".
- catalog description "At the center would be the consumers, whose freedom of choice and responsibility would bring to the medical marketplace the value, innovation, and efficiency found in other markets. Goodman and Musgrave's message is that just as government planning failed so spectacularly in the communist world, so it will fail - indeed, already has failed - in America's health care system. "Play or pay" government schemes and full-blown national health insurance would only aggravate the worst problems of the current system. Patient Power demonstrates that market-oriented reform is the only way out of the mess. It is the comprehensive survey of health care.".
- catalog description "If individuals are allowed to deduct the cost of their own insurance, they will have a stake in finding the best insurance value. Most consumers will discover that high-deductible insurance is a far better buy than low-deductible policies because the cost of handling small claims exceeds the benefits. Goodman and Musgrave propose that consumers be free to set up tax-free medical savings accounts to cover routine medical expenses. Since the money in those accounts would be the property of individuals, they would have an incentive to spend wisely on health care. The money not spent would accumulate tax-free interest that could be used to meet health care and other needs after retirement. Thus, medical savings accounts are a way of privatizing Medicare too. The result of this proposal would be a cost-conscious private system of competition and innovation. ".
- catalog description "In today's bureaucratic health care system, the patient's major role is to sign the forms that authorize one large, impersonal organization to release funds to another, argue John Goodman and Gerald Musgrave. Government, through Medicare and Medicaid, buys close to half the health care provided in America today. Most of the other half is paid for by insurance companies, because the tax laws encourage people to rely on first-dollar health coverage from their employers. When health care appears to be free or very cheap, people buy more than they would if they were paying the full cost. The resulting casual attitude toward shopping for health care drives up prices, which drives up insurance premiums, which creates hardship for business and those without insurance. That spiral eventually harms all users of health care. The Goodman and Musgrave solution is to restore power and responsibility to individual consumers. ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 673 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Patient power.".
- catalog identifier "0932790917 (pbk.) :".
- catalog identifier "0932790925 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Patient power.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute,".
- catalog relation "Patient power.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "362.1/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Cost Control United States.".
- catalog subject "Health Care Costs United States.".
- catalog subject "Health Care Costs.".
- catalog subject "Health Policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Health Policy trends".
- catalog subject "Health insurance Government policy United States.".
- catalog subject "Insurance, Health United States.".
- catalog subject "Insurance, Health".
- catalog subject "Medical care United States Cost control.".
- catalog subject "Medical care, Cost of United States.".
- catalog subject "Medical policy United States.".
- catalog subject "RA395.A3 G655 1992".
- catalog subject "WA 540 AA1 G6p 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "America's health care crisis -- Two competing visions of the health care system -- Moving toward the ideal: an agenda for change -- Using the agenda to solve problems -- How the cost-plus system evolved -- how the cost-plus system works -- opting out of the cost-plus system -- Cost-plus finance and low-deductible health insurance -- Cost-plus medicine and tax law -- Increasing government control over the price and quantity of medical care -- Regulation of health insurance by state governments -- Mandating employer-provided health insurance --Health care after retirement -- The uneasy case for medicare -- Privatizing medicare with medical IRAs -- Paying for national health insurance -- National health insurance in other countries -- The politics of medicine -- The international trend toward privatization of health care -- Meeting the needs of underserved populations -- Conclusion.".
- catalog title "Patient power : solving America's health care crisis / John C. Goodman and Gerald L. Musgrave.".
- catalog type "text".