HealthConsuming - From Health Consumer to Health Citizen

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In 2018, most Americans said that health care was their top public policy issue, ahead of taxes, immigration, the environment and education. Warren Buffett observed in 2010 that health care costs were a tapeworm eating at our economic body. Health care costs are also consuming a growing portion of Americans' household budgets, making medical spending a kitchen-table issue for most people in the U.S. Patients have morphed into health consumers and, now, payors of health care. As Americans spend more and get less return-on-investment for their personal health spending, HealthConsuming asks the basic question: can (and will) Americans morph from health consumers to health citizens? The book explains how HealthConsuming has come to be: how consumers are playing growing roles in making health for themselves, their families and friends, and in their communities, facing ever-growing financial health risks; peoples' growing use of mobile platforms and broadband connectivity, and the promise of digital health for wellness, prevention, self-care and chronic medical care; expanding access for retail health in our communities; the overwhelming evidence for investing in social determinants of health; growing challenges of personal health information privacy and security; and, ultimately, whether Americans have the prospect of becoming full health citizens like peers enjoy in the rest of the developed world.

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