title: Consumer-driven health care: just a tweak or a revolution?
abstract: Although some believe that consumer-driven health care amounts to nothing more than a tweak to the current system of third-party payment, others see it as a far more profound development. They argue that enabling patients to control more of their health care dollars will lead to transformation throughout the health care system, starting with a demand for information. Once patients control the resources and are equipped with information, they will expect health care providers to deliver high-quality services at reasonable prices and at the convenience of the buyer.
authors.affiliation: Consumers for Health Care Choices, in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA. greg@chcchoices.org
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scandlen
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation / Q000379:methods*; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States