Friday, October 30, 2009

Consumers Taking Control of Health-Care Costs

We've been living in a rental house for a few months while we're doing some renovations to our home, and I'm embarrassed to admit it--but renting is different. You don't care as much about the carpet, or the yard, or if it takes three tries to hang a picture as you do when it's your house. (Hope my landlord isn't reading this!) I'm confident that I'm a good renter, but having a stake in something changes your perspective. That's exactly what researchers in a new study on consumer-driven health care found, too.
According to a paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, CDHPs are "working as intended." The group
Consumers for Health Care Choices, which funded the study, says that "all of the empirical evidence shows they are changing patient behavior, which is lowering costs and improving care, and resulting in a sizzling rate of adoption in the market."
That's good news for small-business owners, who have suffered rising health-insurance costs for years. Learn more about all NFIB is doing to help lower costs
here.

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