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Article: The consumer choice model: a humane reconstruction of the U.S. health care system. (Consumer Choice).
- Article from:
- Physician Executive
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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KEY CONCEPTS
* Consumer Choice Model
* Employees Buying Health Care
* Health Care Purchasing
* Marketplace Dynamics
* Consumer-driven Health Care
MOST OBSERVERS AGREE that there are fundamental failures in the U.S. health care system. The ascendancy of managed care has created a consumer backlash, health care premiums have resumed double-digit increases, and the number of uninsured continues to climb, even in the face of unprecedented economic prosperity. Employers, the architects of our health care purchasing system, have become disillusioned with managed care, given its failures to satisfy beneficiaries, control ...