If we align incentives to prioritize shopping among consumers, we can make companies and more importantly the people within them healthier and more financially sound.
Consumerism and the move towards high deductibles were supposed to spur consumer shopping for health care online -- so why arent we shopping for health care like were supposed to?
Theres a fundamental problem with how we make decisions about our health care. We dont shop around.
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