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Protecting American Health Care Consumers by Eleanor DeArman Kinney is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>Despite the attention to the problem of protecting the health care interests of Americans, there is little consensus on what should be done politically or otherwise to address this problem. In <i>Protecting American Health Care Consumers</i> Eleanor DeArman Kinney, a nationally regarded expert on health policy and law, tackles the serious and ongoing debate among state and federal policymakers, health care providers, third-party payers, and consumers about how to provide procedural justice to patients in the present health care climate.<i><br> </i> To promote and ensure consumer protection in an increasingly adversarial and complicated health-care culture, Kinney first analyzes the procedures by which consumer concerns are presently discerned and resolved and then explains why these systems are unsatisfactory. She also discusses problematic procedures for making coverage policy and quality standards and proposes reforms in a variety of processes that would enable all consumers, including the uninsured, to influence key policies and standards and also to raise concerns and obtain appropriate remedies.<br> As the first comprehensive treatment of administrative procedures in Amer
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Eleanor DeArman Kinney
- Publisher
- Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822383536
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Social Science, Law
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