title: Connecting consumer choice to the healthcare system.
abstract: American healthcare needs to be reformed into competing, efficient, comprehensive care systems. To get there from here, we need a health insurance market in which each person or household has a wide, responsible, informed, individual multiple choice of health care financing and delivery plans. The point of this is competing delivery systems, not just competing carriers. To compete, some carriers will create or contract with selective delivery systems or doctors selected for their quality and cost-effectiveness. Others will already be teamed up with large multispecialty group practices. On the other hand, high deductible plans will not help us get to a reformed delivery system.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, USA.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Enthoven
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003256:Community Participation; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States