introduction to the manual
Health Care 2020, Connecting the Dots, is a manual to guide Patients, Employers, Providers, Payors, and Government toward a new, patient-friendly marketplace for working people. Health Care 2020 implements the same, basic U.S. free enterprise principles that deliver most products and services in today’s marketplace, applying them to health care.
The U.S. health care system is suffering from increasingly difficult challenges. The primary problems are:
- The high cost of care and insurance.
- Imposed restrictions on patients regarding provider choice.
- A health care marketplace that is unfriendly to patients.
This manual offers a blueprint to overcome these challenges. It offers a redesigned private health care marketplace that is more affordable, provides patients freedom of choice, and delivers consumer-centered patient care in a healthy, competitive marketplace.
