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Consumerism

PROLOGUE

Consumerism And Managed Care

The past decade has seen a dramatic change in the meaning of the term "market-based health reform." In the 1990s it denoted competition between integrated health plans or organized systems of care. In the new millennium it seems to mean retail shopping for high-value providers and treatments by price-conscious patients with high-deductible coverage. This sweeping redefinition warrants reflection. Is "consumer-driven care" really a radical new idea with the power to transform the health care system, or just a passing intellectual fashion?

The following papers and Perspectives grew out of a roundtable discussion in April 2005 on "Health Care Market Competition: . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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