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Monday, January 22, 2007


Consumer-Driven Health Care ... In Europe?
The move towards consumer-driven health care is slowly taking hold in the U.S., with HSAs, pressure for transparency in pricing, and companies paring back on health care plans. But can such a move take place in Europe, the home of socialized medicine? The Health Consumer Powerhouse thinks so.

From its "About Us" page:

Health Consumer Powerhouse is the leading European provider of consumer information on health care. The Powerhouse is dedicating ideas and resources to the development of consumer empowerment action. We analyse health care and compare the outcomes, designing consumer information tools like health care system and Illnesses indexes, consumer press and education

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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