Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Ph.D., a health economist with Rand Corporation, made this presentation at Health Journalism 2007. Topics covered include: What is consumer-directed health care, characteristics of consumer-health plans, what do we know about the effects, older studies of cost-sharing, results from early adopters, what don't we know about CDHC, policy questions, future research and information sources about CDHC.
