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Free to Choose: Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction: Report of the 2004 Consumer Direction Initiative Summit

69 pages. Self-directed health care is emerging as a critical element in the transformation of America's health care system. Two of the factors that are driving this trend are the recent increases in the cost of health insurance and health services and the inconsistent quality of health care. Both private and public health care delivery systems are responding by developing new consumer-directed products. This summary report of a summit discusses these topics: what is self-directed care?; self-directed care values; self-direction as essential for system transformation; how self-directed care opeates; some examples of self-directed care programs; visions of a future self-directed service system; recommendations of the summit workgroups; and conclusion and next steps.

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