Free to Choose: Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction

April 15, 2005 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 the inconsistent quality of health care. Both private and public health care delivery systems are responding by developing new consumer-directed products. The President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has called for the development of consumer-driven models of care and system changes to support community-based services in behavioral health care. All components of the . . .