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Abstract
Nearly three-fourths of consumers would trade employer-sponsored health insurance for higher pay, and more than half (56 percent) would opt to buy insurance from a health insurance exchange if they could get better coverage. * Less than half of consumers surveyed know what a health insurance exchange is. * Only half of consumers said they would stay within an accountable care-type group for all of their care, a risk to health organizations assuming greater accountability for health outcomes. * Currently, 86 percent of consumers do not access their medical records electronically despite vast investments in electronic health records (EHRs) and high hopes that consumers will use EHRs to participate in shared medical decision-making. * Forty-four percent of consumers think mergers and acquisitions among providers will lead to increased costs, and 36 percent think it will lead to longer wait times.