This article Health Beat: Will Consumer-Driven Medicine Really Cut Health Care Costs? in the Health Beat blog of which I'm quickly becoming a devoted fan does an outstanding job of pointing out many of the flaws in the flight to Consumer-Driven Medicine.
While many of us experience the pain of dealing with the current insurer driven system of providing health care, some have taken flight to the lure of cash-based practice, a version of consumer-driven medicine. Just maybe the above article will give some pause before deciding to capitulate and leaving even more profits in the hands of the third party payers to the detriment of our fellow premium paying citizens.
