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ArchivesWant to Control Health Care Spending? Focus on DoctorsBy Jon Greenberg on Thursday, July 20, 2006.This week, NHPR has focused on consumer driven health care, a new movement that gives patients a financial stake in deciding the treatments they get and the price they pay. The ultimate goal is to put the brakes on rising health care costs. Over the past few days we've presented a variety of views and this evening, we hear from a skeptic. Dr. Elliot Fisher at the Dartmouth Medical School spoke with NHPR's Jon Greenberg. Fisher says if you want to control spending, the people to target are the doctors, not the patients. listen:
  What Might Consumer Driven Care Hold for the Future?By Jon Greenberg on Thursday, July 20, 2006.Our series on the latest movement in health care continues this morning. All this week, we've been looking at what is called consumer driven health care. This is insurance that gives patients a financial stake in deciding the treatments they get and the price they pay. But just to say "consumer driven" raises some fundamental questions about what forces shape our health care options and who makes decisions over the services we use. Today, we hear from one of the originators of the consumer health care movement and explore how consumer preference might play itself out in the health care industry. New Hampshire Public Radio's Jon Greenberg has more. listen:
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