title: Provider-choice plan promises physician control.
abstract: Marketplace competition to rationalize health care delivery costs has been a topic of much discussion recently. Several new plans have been suggested, including the individual risk, provider-as-purchaser plan described here. The plan puts physicians in control.
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007357:Insurance, Physician Services / Q000191:economics*; D010819:Physician's Role; D010821:Physicians, Family; D012380:Role; D014481:United States