Sustaining a market-based healthcare system.
Purchasers of health care are not holding the healthcare system accountable for quality and cost. Employers need to: Offer their employees a wide range of choices in health coverage. Earmark for employees' purchase a fixed dollar amount for health care set at or below the price of the low-priced plan. Insist that carriers and providers report the quality of care delivered.
Enthoven
Alain C
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business, CA, USA. enthoven_alain@gsb.stanford.edu
D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics*; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D016134:Organizational Policy; D014481:United States