Customer Driven Health Plans, The Answer?

CDHPs are a fairly new resurrecting of the old indemnity insurance plan (high deductibles) with a broad PPO choice. How does it actually improve choice and the overall health care system? Dr. Enthoven’s is quoted in Managed Care Matters that CDHPs do not address the concerns of chronic illness, prevention, costs or quality of services. It does give customers choice which is very important to customers.

How do we balance choice, evidenced – based treatments, quality providers, affordability, and access, etc? How do with provide service excellence at an affordable price? What barriers are there to a more healthy and productive system? I cannot answer these questions but I think it’s imperative to start seek answers. What about fewer health care plans? Could we become more consistent with service delivery and monitoring of data, prevention efforts, improved management of chronic illness?

What creative ideas do you have to provide this type of delivery system?

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