Acknowledgments --

Introduction --

pt. 1. Who killed health care? --

ch. 1. The day health care died --

pt. 2. Death by a thousand cuts --

ch. 2. Killer number 1: the health insurers, death at the hands of a dysfunctional culture --

ch. 3. Killer number 2: the general hospitals, death at the hands of empire builders --

ch. 4. Killer number 3 : the employers, death at the hands of a "choice" of one --

ch. 5. Killer number 4 : the U.S. Congress, death at the hands of those elected to represent us --

ch. 6. Killer number 5 : the academics, death at the hands of the elite policy makers --

pt. 3. The right medicine : consumer-driven health care --

ch. 7. How it works --

ch. 8. Consumer-driven benefits : lessons from other countries and industries --

pt. 4. How to make it happen : the carrots, the sticks, the laws --

ch. 9. The carrots : let medical business entrepreneurialism bloom --

ch. 10. The sticks : let information flow --

ch. 11. A bold new consumer-driven health care system : the laws and their legislators --

Notes --

Index.