Most Efficient Affordable Care

Goals 

• More informed decision making
• Better manage chronic disease
• Evaluate the efficacy and use of new technologies and medicines 
• Spend resources on care, not paperwork and legal costs
• Well-educated workforce in sufficient numbers and with needed mix of skills

Public Policy Ideas for Change 

• Simplify the working of public and private insurance
• Focus on chronic care management
• Create a better alternative to today’s liability system*
• Test payment redesign to reward quality providers who follow recommended “best practices”*
• Redefine roles for workers to meet future care needs
• Renovate the education of health care professionals and the broader health care workforce
• Make available to consumers meaningful information on the quality, price, use, and comparative effectiveness of health care services
• Analyze the comparative effectiveness, risks, and benefits of new technologies, medicines, practices, and procedures for individual conditions
• Expand educational capacity and emphasize early math and science learning to meet current and future health care workforce needs
• Invest in America’s public health
• Test payment redesign to give provider groups a single amount to manage the entire episode of a patient’s care and better coordinate care*
• Adequately fund national performance improvement measurement*