title: Health care consumerism: incentives, behavior change and uncertainties.
abstract: Employers affected by the recession's 2009 peak must press for cost containment in 2010, especially in health care benefits. Encouraging employee consumerism--through consumer-directed health plans and other strategies--can be enhanced by incentives, but federal efforts at health care reform add some element of uncertainty to the consumer-directed solution. This article provides some lessons to guide the course of action for employers considering implementing a consumerist approach to improve employee health and control the cost trend.
authors.affiliation: THM, Newport Beach, California, USA.
authors.forename: Sander
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Domaszewicz
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Havlin
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Connolly
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D035501:Uncertainty; D014481:United States