6/16/2006: Protecting Consumers in an Evolving Health Insurance Market (PDF) (National Committee for Quality Assurance)

68 pages. Excerpt: This paper outlines the evolution of both health insurance and its regulation and summarizes the early experience with the new consumer-directed products. It then considers potential strategies that regulators and accrediting organizations could use to address problems consumers may face in an evolving insurance market, including ways in which regulators and accreditors could treat similarly organizations performing similar functions, setting standards[.]