How can the market support an equitable healthcare system?
A. The current market is organized to cater to large bureaucracies, whether they’re government programs or corporate health insurance programs. In both cases, consumers have very little authority to make decisions about the kind of care and coverage that suit them and their families best. Giving people more options regarding how to direct their spending on healthcare would lead to a more consumer-friendly market and lead to bringing in some of the efficiencies that we see in other sectors of the economy. However, if consumers have more control over the financing of their healthcare and health insurance, they would make wiser choices about that spending. It also would provide new incentives for the health insurance market to provide more choices and more affordable options for both healthcare and health insurance. Q. In the legislative arena, what do you view as the biggest ongoing challenges? A. The State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) certainly has dominated the debate ov
