"Consumering" rewards healthy
Benemax (A Benefit Management Company)
Consumer Driven Health Care (CDHC)
CDHC presentation slides (excerpts)
“Unleashing the power of free market economics on the healthcare
industry”
Why CDHC: Consumering
Patients shop for quality & price
Providers compete for patient traffic
Patients subject treatment options to cost/benefit analysis
What a CDHC plan does
Varies member cost based on health care behavior
Rewards members with below median health care costs
http://www.benemax.com/presentation-cdhc/cdhc1.html
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Fourth Edition
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Comment: Although “consumering” apparently rewards patients “with below
median health care costs,” conversely it seems to punish patients with above median health care costs. The opposite of insurance, “consumering” protects the healthy from the costs of those with legitimate health care needs, and further punishes the sick by adding the financial burden of accessing health care.
“Consumering” doesn’t seem to be a very good idea. Let’s not add it to
our dictionaries.