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Health Affairs, 25, no. 2 (2006): 566-567 doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.25.2.566-b © 2006 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Choice In Health Care

In reading their paper on creating a better health care system (Nov/Dec 05), I was disappointed that my Stanford University friends and colleagues, John Cogan and Daniel Kessler, did not include the principle that all consumers should have a financially responsible choice among alternative health care financing and delivery plans—as we have here at Stanford. Perhaps they took it for granted that most people have this kind of choice, although, in fact, barely 10 percent of the employed insured do.

It is important for people to have such a choice because premium differences (risk-adjusted) reflect the total annual per capita . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Alain C. Enthoven

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