Quote of the Day

“Ideally, consumer cost-sharing levels would be set to encourage the clinically appropriate use of services. Instead, archaic ‘one-size-fits-all’ cost sharing fails to acknowledge the differences in clinical value among medical interventions. Accumulating evidence concludes that cost-sharing increases lead to reductions in both nonessential and essential care, which, in some cases, leads to greater costs.”



— A. Mark Fendrick, M.D., director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and co-author of a new report on V-BID from the National Cancer Policy Forum.