Consumer-Driven Health Care?

David Sirota explains one of the major flaws in President Bush’s upcoming proposal for “Consumer Driven Health Care”:

Sounds like the theory of “consumer-driven” health care is on solid ground — until you realize one key flaw: creating a “consumer-driven” system requires consumers to be able to make informed choices about what they are buying. And the problem is that not everyone is a physician. How can a citizen be expected to know what health care services to buy and what not to buy if they don’t have a medical degree? Consumers may want to save costs, but how are they expected to know to get this test, and not that test, this treatment and not that treatment, this surgery but not that surgery?

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