Containing health costs in a consumer-based model

Butler, S.M.

Health Care Financing Review 1991(Suppl): 21-25

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0195-8631
PMID: 25372478
Document Number: 389261
The assumption that consumer choice cannot be used to achieve cost control in health care is invalid. It does not do so today because the tax treatment of health care leads to perverse consumer incentives that encourage cost escalation. By reforming the tax treatment of insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs, it is possible to design an efficient and universal system in which consumer choice is a powerful restraint on cost.

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