3/2/2006: Consumer-Directed Health Plans Might Not Work at Controlling Costs in Long Term (Managed Care)

Excerpt: A report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a not-for-profit research organization, compared the experience of people in consumer-directed plans with their peers in health plans that do not have high deductibles.... Their findings are based on the early experience of a small sample of executives and people in consumer-directed health care plans, leaving them open to the criticism that their analysis is questionable.