Putting patients in charge of their own care has lowered costs and improved care when it has been tried.
So when President Barack Obama today said:
You talk to every health care economist out there, and they will tell you that whatever ideas are — whatever ideas exist in terms of bending the cost curve and starting to reduce costs for families, businesses and government, those elements are in this bill.
He was wrong. CMS’s review of HarryCare shows out-of-pocket spending will dip to 9.6 percent of national health expenditures under the baseline or the Senate bill as of November 18. If patients spend less than a dime for every dollar of care they get, either the cost of care will explode or the only way to get care will be to become a medical tourist.
