Topic 5: Understanding your health care costs
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Tackling the High Costs of Your Health Care: What You and ABC Toy Company Can Do About It
Communicates two key messages to employees: (1) that employees and employers share the burden of health care costs and face similar challenges when making difficult trade-offs, and (2) that both employers and employees can take steps to better manage the costs of care while still ensuring access to high-quality care. (3 pages)
You May Not Get What You Pay For: How to Be an Informed Health Care Consumer
Discusses how health care prices can vary. Explains that the price of health care doesn’t tell you anything about the quality of that care. Encourages employees to be “informed consumers,” just as they are for other major expenditures in their lives. (2 pages)
Figuring Out What Health Care Will Cost You
Discusses ways to get information on the costs of care from insurers and online sources in order to help make informed choices. (2 pages)
Getting High-Quality Care and Managing Your Costs: Stories About Shopping for the Health Care That Is Best for You
Two stories that illustrate the types of choices that many health care consumers face and the steps they can take to make the decisions that are right for them. (PowerPoint presentation)
