Consumer Directed Healthcare: Except for the Healthy and Wealthy It’s Unwise

Many politicians and business leaders are advocating high deductible health insurance plans linked with health savings accounts—so-called consumer-directed healthcare. These policies penalize the sick, discourage needed care (especially primary and preventive care), and direct tax subsidies towards...

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Autores principales: Woolhandler, Steffie, Himmelstein, David U.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2007
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Perspectives
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2071952/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17394044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-007-0187-3
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description Many politicians and business leaders are advocating high deductible health insurance plans linked with health savings accounts—so-called consumer-directed healthcare. These policies penalize the sick, discourage needed care (especially primary and preventive care), and direct tax subsidies towards the wealthiest Americans. They offer little hope of slowing the growth of health care costs and add further bureaucratic costs and complexity to our health care financing system.
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spelling pubmed-20719522008-04-25 Consumer Directed Healthcare: Except for the Healthy and Wealthy It’s Unwise Woolhandler, Steffie Himmelstein, David U. J Gen Intern Med Perspectives Many politicians and business leaders are advocating high deductible health insurance plans linked with health savings accounts—so-called consumer-directed healthcare. These policies penalize the sick, discourage needed care (especially primary and preventive care), and direct tax subsidies towards the wealthiest Americans. They offer little hope of slowing the growth of health care costs and add further bureaucratic costs and complexity to our health care financing system. Springer-Verlag 2007-03-30 2007-06 /pmc/articles/PMC2071952/ /pubmed/17394044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-007-0187-3 Text en © Society of General Internal Medicine 2007
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Consumer Directed Healthcare: Except for the Healthy and Wealthy It’s Unwise
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title_fullStr Consumer Directed Healthcare: Except for the Healthy and Wealthy It’s Unwise
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title_short Consumer Directed Healthcare: Except for the Healthy and Wealthy It’s Unwise
title_sort consumer directed healthcare: except for the healthy and wealthy it’s unwise
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2071952/
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