For many elderly patients, choice isn't necessarily a good thing.
Nicholson says giving patients choice is an important part of giving them more control.
The market will often remove patients' choice to use their usual NHS services.
"Everything he talked about will be legislation that preserves patients' choice, lowers costs, improves the quality of care.
They protect patients' choice over services, so that they can make decisions with their doctor about how they receive their care.
PAGE E1 Study Finds Medicare Faults Federal investigators said the administration had improperly allowed some private health plans to limit Medicare patients' choice of doctors and nursing homes.
A17 Medicare Policy Faulted Federal investigators said the Bush administration had improperly allowed some private health plans to limit Medicare patients' choice of health care providers.
That is why the NHS reforms, to break down the old monolith, bring in new providers, allow patients choice, must continue.
Not patient choice; in an interview with HSJ this week the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, conceded that giving patients choice would not improve performance.
Paul Ryan Janesville, Wis., Sept.17, 2009 The writer, Republican of Wisconsin and ranking member on the House Budget Committee, is the author of H.R. 2520, the Patients' Choice Act.
More recently, in an interesting counterproposal to the Affordable Care Act, Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, offered the Patients' Choice Act of May 2009.
