Thursday, May 05, 2005
New NCPA study on consumer-driven health care released
[Devon M. Herrick, Ph.D., Consumer Driven Health Care: The Changing Role of the Patient, NCPA Policy Report No. 276, The National Center for Policy Analysis, May 2005.]
Devon Herrick takes a detailed look at the consumer driven health care movement in this new NCPA study:
The latest trend in health care? Patients are managing their own care. New technologies make it possible. Legislative changes facilitate it. And financial pressures all but require it.
Consumers now have numerous avenues to become smart shoppers of medical services. Research has shown that employees are more satisfied when they have a greater choice of plans and consumer-driven health care offers them the ultimate choice. With these new plans comes the opportunity to manage our own care.
An important byproduct is the quality of health care and service improves when patients are the ones who control the checkbook, rather than third-party insurers. Another important result is that costs will rise more slowly. Over 250 million consumers holding a tight rein on health care spending will do more to control costs than a few third-party bureaucrats working for HMOs.
[Devon Herrick, "Health Savings Accounts: The Future Of Health Care For Kansans," The Flint Hills Center, 14 February 2005.]
[Devon M. Herrick, Ph.D., Consumer Driven Health Care: The Changing Role of the Patient, NCPA Policy Report No. 276, The National Center for Policy Analysis, May 2005.]
Devon Herrick takes a detailed look at the consumer driven health care movement in this new NCPA study:
The latest trend in health care? Patients are managing their own care. New technologies make it possible. Legislative changes facilitate it. And financial pressures all but require it.
Consumers now have numerous avenues to become smart shoppers of medical services. Research has shown that employees are more satisfied when they have a greater choice of plans and consumer-driven health care offers them the ultimate choice. With these new plans comes the opportunity to manage our own care.
An important byproduct is the quality of health care and service improves when patients are the ones who control the checkbook, rather than third-party insurers. Another important result is that costs will rise more slowly. Over 250 million consumers holding a tight rein on health care spending will do more to control costs than a few third-party bureaucrats working for HMOs.
[Devon Herrick, "Health Savings Accounts: The Future Of Health Care For Kansans," The Flint Hills Center, 14 February 2005.]
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