The Better Care Plan: a blueprint for improving America’s healthcare system
The United States falls far short of its potential for delivering care that is effective, efficient, safe, timely, patient-centered, and equitable. We put forward the Better Care Plan, an overarching blueprint to address the flaws in our current system. The plan calls for continuously improving care, moving all payers to risk-adjusted prospective payment, and creating national entities for collecting, analyzing, and reporting patient safety and quality-of-care outcomes data. A number of recommendations are made to achieve these goals. Published in the inaugural issue of Health Affairs Scholar, the authors propose The Better Care Plan which aims to reduce costs, improve patient safety and quality outcomes, and provide team-based care.
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