The Defined Contribution Route to Health Care Choice and Competition (Report‪)‬

Introduction The principal divide in American health care policy is over what to do about rapidly rising costs. On one side are those who believe the solution is to enhance the government's power to direct resources in the health system and enforce budgetary controls. This is the point of view that animated the drafting of the recently passed health care law. On the other side are those who believe the solution is a functioning marketplace for insurance and care, not coercion and heavy-handed regulation.