title: Getting on the soapbox: views of an innovator in consumer-directed care.
abstract: Consumer-directed health care (CDHC) is often thought of solely as a demand-side solution to the health care cost crisis. One could argue that CDHC is a financing and service revolution that seeks to develop more-efficient financial services products with consumer information to bring about market-based changes in the U.S. health care system. Developing a balanced review of CDHC's potential will help construct future implementations of consumer-directed products and services and advance policy recommendations that improve the cost and quality of health care services.
authors.affiliation: Lemhi Ventures in Excelsior, Minnesota, USA. tmiller@lemhiventures.com
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior / Q000191:economics*; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D020402:Medical Savings Accounts; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010358:Patient Participation; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States