Getting patients to shop for health care is a tough sell quoting : medicalxpress

Explore further: Making health care prices available does not result in lower outpatient spending Policy makers have shown growing interest in the idea that unleashing the power of market competition through price shopping can rein in rising health care costs. One study, which analyzed utilization of a comparison shopping tool by consumers, revealed that few used the tool to choose lower-cost options. Additionally, 75 percent of people in the survey said they did not know of a price comparison resource. The most common reason for avoiding price shopping was reluctance to switch physicians, with 77 percent of respondents citing this as a factor.




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Congress, president need to act before health care implodes – Long Island Business News

Just when you thought there were no statesman left in the United States Senate, Sen. John McCain stood up to vote thumbs down on his party's pathetic version of health care reform. Cantor is director of the Long Island Center for Socio-Economic Policy and a former Suffolk County economic development commissioner. Well the health plan offered by Senate Republicans and voted against by McCain certainly does. This lack of choice has limited where enrollees can get tax credits based on their income to help offset insurance costs. Unforgettable was President Obama himself who boasted that Obamacare would save $2,500 in premiums per year and if enrollees liked their doctors and insurance companies they could keep them.


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