“Consumer-driven” health plans can work only if consumers understand the plans.
Lois Vitt and Ray Werntz, health policy experts, make that argument in a new analysis published by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, Washington.
“Should health education initiatives prove ineffective, the ‘consumer-driven health movement’ could well be doomed, especially if it relies upon fully educated health consumers taking self-initiated actions,” Vitt and Werntz write in the analysis.