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The Consumer Driven Health Care Institute was proud to sponsor the World Congress Employer Health and Human Capital Congress in Washington from February 2-5, 2010. Please stay in touch with CDHCI through our weekly newsletter to learn about our upcoming endorsed and sponsored events for 2010. Click on the link for additional information and advance registration for our future events.... CDHC: A Reform That’s Already Taken Hold This version of health care reform has been growing rapidly over the past several years, framed by fundamental consumer behavior principles and structured by employment and tax laws. This health care reform is powered by a segment of the population who now realizes that health and wealth are permanently and critically connected. This reform reduces cost as a means to expand coverage, instead of believing the opposite approach will somehow work. The reform I am referring to is consumer-directed health care (CDHC), arguably the fastest-growing and most fiscally effective health plan design in place today.... CIGNA Study: CDHPs Deliver Real World Health Care Reform As overall medical costs continue to increase by double digits annually, medical costs for individuals in account-based consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) went down 26% over four years, while levels of care for their preventive medicine, chronic disease management and evidence-based treatments were higher than their counterparts in traditional PPO and HMO health plans, according to a new multi-year study of health care claims experience of 655,000 CIGNA customers.... Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is releasing selected estimates of health insurance coverage for the civilian noninstitutionalized U.S. population based on data from the January-June 2009 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), along with comparable estimates from the 1997-2008 NHIS.... Health Policy Experts Debate Where Reform Should Go In a spate of recently published articles, health policy experts across the political spectrum discuss where healthcare reform should go from here. Their viewpoints articulate the clashing philosophies that underlie the current deadlock in Washington.... Health Spending Projections Through 2019: The Recession’s Impact Continues The economic recession and rising unemployment—plus changing demographics and baby boomers aging into Medicare—are among the factors expected to influence health spending during 2009–2019. In 2009 the health share of gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to have increased 1.1 percentage points to 17.3 percent—the largest single-year increase since 1960.... Rethinking Health Reform: The Need For A More Incremental Approach As expected, President Obama put health reform on the back burner in his State of the Union speech. After a year of debate, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid have been unable to bridge the ideological divide within their own party over the scope of the legislation and the government's role in a reformed system. The lack of agreement on the legislation is not confined to Capitol Hill. As the President said, the ugly political process caused the public to ask what was in this for them—and more importantly, what was in this that would make matters worse...
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