Consumer-centered vs. job-centered health insurance.
Today's dominant health care financing system blocks economic competition and rewards doctors and hospitals for cost-increasing behavior. The author believes that the most effective and acceptable way to get health care costs under control, and at the same time achieve universal coverage, would be through a system of fair economic competition. He discusses his Consumer Choice Health Plan proposal and describes how one of the main barriers to competition is today's system of job-linked health insurance.
D003256:Community Participation / Q000191:economics*; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006278:Medicare; D014481:United States