President Obama suggested he is willing to talk about compromises to the reform proposals.The article attached here describes what the Center would like him to focus on.
The following article was delivered to a crowd of around one thousand people at the Fox Cities stadium last Tuesday night. The response was overwhelmingly positive probably due to the fact that we are talking about health care reform that everyone can agree on. Let's get back to a bi-partisan discussion on the important components of needed health care reform.
These are the three key elements the President should be focused on:
1. Mandate that each state establish consumer reports for health care cost and quality. It must report measures that are meaningful for patients such as medication errors and infection rates. Allow existing regional public reporting collaboratives to publicly report the data such as the Wisconsin Collaborative for Health Care Quality and Wisconsin Hospital Association.
2. Change government payment processes to reward better quality and lower cost. Medicare and any other public plans should be in the business of stimulating competition among providers to achieve what The Health Care Value Leaders Network members www.createvalue.org, have achieved using the lean methodology. Provider competition needs to be based on which organization does the best at treating the patient condition in terms of cost and quality.
3. Any new insurance plan should be paid for by taking cost out of the existing health system. The federal role is to assure all state residents are covered and quality performance is met. Most importantly, any new insurance plan or plans should be administered at the state level because local public-private partnerships work best when radical change is required.
An expert advisory panel should be established by the Institute of Medicine or another non-partisan entity to act in guiding the government in the above policies.
To read the letter, please click here - Fundamentally_Flawed_Toussaint
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