What is Consumer-Directed Health Care?

December 26, 2007

Dr. Jay Parkinson, who has moved his blog, calls our attention to an excellent article summarizing CDHC

Would physicians practice medicine differently if they were paid differently? There is ample evidence that the answer is yes. Unlike other forms of surgery, the typical cosmetic surgery patient can find a package price in advance covering all services and facilities, compare prices prior to the surgery, and pay a price that is lower in real terms than the price charged a decade ago for comparable procedures””despite considerable technological innovations in the interim.



Related posts:

  1. Congressional Budget Office’s Report on Consumer Directed Health Plans
  2. What is responsible for high health care costs?
  3. Medicare and cutting health care costs
  4. How pharmaceuticals are maximizing profits in anticipation of competition from generics
  5. Containing health care costs
  6. What if there were more pet plaintiffs?
  7. Can a free market in health care really exist?


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