Healthcare reform should focus on specific policies that can help slow unnecessary growth in health spending, expand insurance coverage, and promote better health for all Americans.
Read MoreUniversal reporting and measurement of patients’ condition-specific outcomes is the single most important step the U.S. government can take to improve the access, cost, and quality of health care delivery.
Read MoreHealthcare block grants — administered by states in a way acceptable to each state’s voters and subject to nationally determined performance measures — support access, quality, efficiency, and choice.
Read MoreA public option and private insurance firms can compete appropriately. Sustainable competition between private insurance firms and a public option for healthcare coverage will expand access while improving cost and quality.
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As the United States moves toward the 2020 election, political parties and stakeholders across the health sector are as far apart as ever from agreeing on improvements to healthcare access, quality, and cost-effectiveness. We need a road forward. HMPI is delighted to offer ten articles by scholars and policy analysts that seek to break the partisan gridlock. None of these arguments is wedded to a specific solution. Instead, they reflect the regional preferences and differences across the country and, most importantly, practical principles with the potential to cut across partisan boundaries to help build workable solutions with broad-based support. Read more
A shift to long-term health insurance can accomplish the core function of health insurance: financial risk protection for consumers and incentives for insurers to optimize prevention and population health management.
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Price transparency will benefit consumers by reducing costs and the misallocation of resources, which in turn can create opportunities for healthcare providers.
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A compromise proposal to improve the transparency and accountability: identify slack in the pricing and rate-setting processes and create positive incentives for improving access to health services.
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An objective, transparent, and versatile simulation and visualization model allows policy makers and the public to compare the potential impact of various healthcare reform proposals – and supports a less partisan healthcare debate.
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Recognizing access, efficiency, and quality as widely shared goals can stimulate structural solutions in the U.S. healthcare delivery system. And international models offer starting points for those solutions.
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Unlike current incentive schemes focused primarily on quality or cost, hospitals should implement competitive incentives to invest in structural operational improvements and contractual negotiations that also reduce price.
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