ABSTRACT
The confluence of two trends--health care "consumerism" and employee self-service benefits programs--offers employers a promising opportunity for health care cost control. To take advantage of this opportunity, employers must take a fresh look at the health care cost dilemma and find ways to simultaneously offer employees a new kind of benefit and implement more effective cost-control measures.
Subject(s)
Community Participation , Cost Control/methods , Health Benefit Plans, Employee/economics , Internet , Organizational Innovation , Employer Health Costs , Employment/psychology , Humans , Power, Psychological , United StatesSubject(s)
Emergency Service, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Outpatient Clinics, Hospital/statistics & numerical data , Primary Health Care , Group Practice , Gynecology , Hospital Administration , Humans , Internal Medicine , New York , Obstetrics , Pediatrics , Statistics as Topic , Time FactorsABSTRACT
The delivery of health care had emerged as one of the most important political issues of the 1970's, yet public attitudes about health issues remains a relatively unexplored subject. Little is known about the public's opinion of who should control the delivery of health care, about how the costs of health care are perceived, or about how the delivery of care should be financed. This paper relates respondent attitudes on these subjects to attitudes about criteria that determine the respondent's choice of ambulatory care facility and to socioeconomic, political, and other demographic characteristics. The data are derived from a survey (N=521) of households representative of the area of Rochester, New York.
