Welcome to the Rauser Health Review

Thanks for visiting this site.

For the entire 25+ years I have been in the health insurance business, the headlines have pretty much been the same. Skyrocketing Premiums! SKYROCKETING PREMIUMS! SKYROCKETING PREMIUMS!!! (Doesn't anyone have a thesaurus?) Well, finally market forces are generating real change in both the financing and delivery of health care. As one who meets with groups of employees almost daily, it is exciting to see how eager folks are for information, choice and control.

Long ago Thomas Jefferson wrote: "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of society but of the people themselves; and if we think of them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion."

In some small way I hope this site will provide information and encouragement to readers to be savvy consumers of health care. While there is a role for government and academics and insurers and employers in getting health care costs under control, the real power is in the hands of everyday people.

Your thoughts and feedback will be welcomed.