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.