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August 17, 2010

Heritage Research

Utah’s Defined-Contribution Option: Patient-Centered Health Care

In Utah, state policymakers have taken a different approach in health care reform by  giving businesses and their workers the option of “defined contribution” health benefits—where participating workers choose coverage from a wide variety of plans offered by competing insurers through Utah’s health insurance exchange.  In a recent Heritage paper, Gregg Girvan explains how Utah’s state leaders are innovators who are doing precisely what they should be doing.  Click here to read how Utah policymakers are using their authority to resist concentrated power in Washington, and working to provide more and better choices for their citizens.

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