Among the experts contributing to a special National Review issue dedicated to health care is
Regina Herzlinger
, a former John Locke Foundation
Headliner
.

Here?s a portion of her latest prescription:

On the supply side, providers currently are compensated for conforming to cookbook recipes for delivering fragments of care. These practices are not cost-effective and inhibit innovation. And because providers lack economic incentives to provide the best value for the money, patients receive suboptimal, unnecessarily expensive care.

Effecitve health-care reform would motivate consumers to shop carefully for insurance polices that offer the best value for the money while giving providers incentives to supply the best value for the money.