Working as Intended
What have learned about Consumer Driven Health Care
Written By: Greg Scandlen
Published In: CHCC Report > CHCC Reports
Publication date:
11/01/2007
Publisher: Consumers for Health Care Choice
Five years into the experiment with Consumer Driven Health Care, the data shows they are “working as intended.” All of the empirical evidence shows they are changing patient behavior, which is lowering costs and improving care, and resulting in a sizzling rate of adoption in the market. The negative information that has been widely touted in the press is based on three very flawed public opinion surveys.
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Grace-Marie Turner is president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health reform.
