Welcome to the Health as Human Capital Foundation website - an independent source of information for policy makers in business, government, and health care.

Focused on economic principles and market solutions, the Foundation provides education programs and research updates.

Ill-designed Consumer-Directed Health: A small step won’t get us over a big chasm. Entry 18 – 2008.
(Sunday, August 31, 2008)

Tethering unhappy workers with health insurance: perhaps it’s time to break those ties. Entry 17 - 2008
(Sunday, August 17, 2008)

How did high-priced, questionable technology become a good cause? Entry 16 - 2008
(Sunday, August 03, 2008)

To establish health as a recognized component of human capital by providing:

• objective, empirical information about the economics of inefficient health resource utilization and
• insights about market solutions to the health care cost and quality problem.

• Aligning Incentives, Information, and Choice

• By Wendy D. Lynch, PhD and Harold H. Gardner, MD

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