This obvious conflict has led us to the problems we face today. Promotes good health, recognizing that promoting health and preventing illness are more appropriate and less costly than treating illness at advanced stages. Everyone wants to be healthy, yet people eat unhealthy foods, do not exercise and engage in excessive behavior. If simply knowing something is bad for you is not enough, how can you create incentives for better behavior. The way health care is paid for today does not encourage people to take a greater stake in their own health.
Most people have no personal stake in the cost of their health care.
There are people in Congress who believe, that by creating Medical Savings Accounts, people would have a greater incentive to take care of themselves. Establishes national standards for delivering health services and assessing medical technology, yet permits local boards of expert and community representatives to participate in determining which services and technology are needed and how they should be delivered. There are very few federal standards in health care today. All managed care bills being proposed in Congress will create a floor for health care standards. In most cases, states would be able to then set a higher standard, after the federal floor had been met.