Consumer -Directed Health Care New England Journal of Medicine (subscription), MA - For the past century, a premise of health policy has been that patients are ill equipped to judge the merits of tests, treatments, and providers. ...

Food Safety Ultimately Rests With the Consumer CBC News, Canada - ... chairman of the department of preventive medicine and community ... a former New York City health commissioner ... director of food policy for Consumer Federation, told ...

Consumer unease with US health care grows USA Today - ... have come up with around 30% of health care is unnecessary," says Richard Deyo, professor of medicine at the ... Few saw any consumer responsibility in rising costs ...