Table of Contents:
  • Assessing Health Care Reform
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preamble
  • Extending Access to Health Care
  • BARRIERS TO ACCESS
  • FINANCIAL ACCESS
  • Principles
  • Practical Implications
  • Assessing Access Provisions of Reform Proposals
  • MORE THAN FINANCIAL ACCESS
  • Containing Health Care Costs
  • COSTS IN CONTEXT
  • ELEMENTS OF A STRATEGY
  • Specific Elements
  • Elements Not Mentioned
  • MOVING FROM GENERAL TO SPECIFIC POLICIES
  • Administrative Costs-and Benefits
  • Tax Caps and Geographic Variations in Health Care Costs
  • Patient Cost Sharing and Special Problems
  • Core and Supplemental Benefits
  • Risk Selection versus Cost Containment
  • Assuring the Quality of Care
  • DEFINING QUALITY
  • QUALIFY MEASUREMENT AND IMPROVEMENT
  • Major Targets
  • Criteria for a Strategy
  • Individual and System Perspectives
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • System Problems
  • CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES
  • SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS
  • Financing Reform
  • Improving the Infrastructure for Effective Change
  • GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
  • HUMAN AND PHYSICAL CAPITAL
  • Human Capital
  • Physical Capital
  • KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT
  • Databases, Surveys, and Information Technologies
  • Privacy and Confidentiality of Sensitive Personal Health Data
  • Health Services, Outcomes, and Effectiveness Research
  • Technology Assessment
  • PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
  • OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES
  • Programs for Special Populations
  • Tort Reform
  • Public/Consumer Education
  • Conclusion
  • References.