December 01, 2006
Consumer disenchantment with "consumer-driven" health plans
A new Kaiser Family Foundation survey of people enrolled in "consumer-driven" health plans shows that half say they would switch out of the plans if they had the chance.
The Washington Post summarized the survey. Excerpt: "More than 60 percent of people in the plans said it is hard to find good information about the cost of doctors' services and hospital care; and about 50 percent said information on quality of care is hard to come by. Half of those enrolled in the plans said they would switch out if given the choice, compared with a third of those in traditional plans. And they were twice as likely as those in traditional plans to say that they went without care because of cost.
Gail Shearer, director of health policy analysis at Consumers Union, noted that the survey found that people in the new plans tend to be wealthier, healthier and more educated than their counterparts in traditional plans, and were more likely to be white.
"Instead of our health system moving towards one where we're all in this together, this type of option is leading to more splitting the population into different segments and, to me, that's an unhealthy thing," Shearer said. She added that poorer, sicker consumers could get left behind."
Posted by schwitz at December 1, 2006 08:00 AM | TrackBacki'm at the consumer driven health care conference and will interview some people in response to the commonwealth / EBRI report to get their reaction. i'll post the video along with other video from the conference such as Regina Herzlinger's talk on the next generation of consumer health care:
http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/12/09/regina-herzlinger/
peter
Posted by: peter at December 11, 2006 09:07 PM
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