The idea: Spend more now to improve care and eventually pare the more than $100 million that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles pays annually for health care, just in Indiana. “We looked at how do we change the health care delivery system, that’s really what employers are asking,” Fiat Chrysler executive Kathleen Neal said. But this shift means workers will have to change how they use the health care system. And companies, which don’t see individual medical records, have to patiently wait for some potential benefits from their investment like a drop in health care costs. “It is really, really hard to change behaviour,” said Carolyn Engelhard, an associate professor at the University of Virginia’s medical school who studies health policy.

Source: National Post September 30, 2018 14:37 UTC