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Statement of Principle on Patient Choice

POSTED BY Galen Institute on October 11, 2000.

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Statement of Principle on Patient Choice

October 11, 2000

Because the Patients' Bill of Rights will raise costs and reduce access to health insurance, employers and employees should have the ability to opt out of the provisions of the bill if they so desire.

Therefore, if an employer gives a defined contribution to employees for health coverage, the employer, the employee plan, and the insurer chosen by the employee should be exempt from the liability and the regulatory provisions of the Patients' Bill of Rights.

Employees would be the owners of their health coverage, which they would choose and purchase either individually or through group plans. The tax treatment of this defined contribution would be the same as under current law.

 

Grace-Marie Arnett
Galen Institute

Naomi Lopez-Bauman
Pacific Research Institute

Julie Chan
Cato Institute

Stephen J. Entin
Institute for Research on the
Economics of Taxation

James Frogue
The Heritage Foundation

John Goodman, Ph.D.
National Center for Policy Analysis

Robert Helms, Ph.D.
American Enterprise Institute

 

  John S. Hoff
Health Policy Attorney

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D.
American Conservative Network

Marty McGeein
The McGeein Group

Thomas Miller
Cato Institute

Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D.
The Heritage Foundation

Greg Scandlen
National Center for Policy Analysis

Elizabeth Wright
Council for Citizens Against Government Waste

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