What role does quality measurement play in assessing theperformance of health plans and in assessing the impact of pricecompetition? Would you join a health plan simply because it had thelowest cost without any information on quality? Why or why not?Referring to what you learned in Chapter 10 (in Unit 3): Should weas a society rely on individual choice of high-quality providers?Should our decisions be based on publicly available report cards toimprove health-care quality? Should we rely on institutions (e.g.government agencies) to mandate and enforce minimum qualitystandards? Why or why not? How do access quality andcost-effective care come together for the benefit of patients?Physicians and providers? Hospitals? Society?