By Evan Falchuk

If you’re into health care consumerism, and you like, well, me, you will enjoy my guest blog post at CDHC Solutions Magazine.

CDHC Solutions focuses on consumer-driven health plans.  Consumer-driven plans are a form of “high deductible” health coverage that is more popular than ever.

For whatever you want to say about these plans, one thing is clear: they don’t solve the fundamental problem of patients not having enough time with their doctors.

Here’s a taste of what I wrote:

Researchers have been trying to pinpoint the impact of this time starvation on the quality of medical care, and they’re finding disturbing results. A recent study in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that because of time pressures and related factors doctors deliver “error-free” care as rarely as 22% of the time. The researchers called this a “failure to individualize care,” which is a nice way of saying the doctors just weren’t paying enough attention to the needs of their patients.

Read the whole thing here.