Health Care System and Preventive Care Prevent Chronic Disease AA
Health Care System and Preventive Care - Prevent Chronic Disease - AA...
Corbis The current health care system will be unsustainable if it keeps its current track of spending. What we must do, he continues, is construct a second set of tracks for the train where health care is provided by teams delivering comprehensive care, where doctors' payments are determined by the results, where digital records are widely shared and where costs are mitigated by a vastly expanded pool of people with insurance. This is the heart of the that was approved by Congress, was affirmed by the courts and is being implemented this year. We have a health care system that consumes 17 percent of the national economy and is unsustainable if it follows the current tracks. Today, new tracks are being built, complete with a set of guideposts, a checklist of both critical questions and potential milestones: Will companies cover their workers? Employer-provided health insurance remains the linchpin of the nation's health care system, covering nearly 60 percent of those under 65. But in a sluggish economy, companies may be tempted to curtail coverage.
Getting Our Health Care System on Track
We need a new health care system where care is aimed at prevention and doctors are paid for results not services
l Mention health care costs, and Mark McClellan talks about train tracks. Few people know more about the dynamics and details of the nation's health care system than McClellan, the former director of the Food and Drug Administration and then the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. One set of tracks, he says, carries the current train — with doctors, hospitals, and insurance and pharmaceutical companies organized around paying for specific tasks performed.Corbis The current health care system will be unsustainable if it keeps its current track of spending. What we must do, he continues, is construct a second set of tracks for the train where health care is provided by teams delivering comprehensive care, where doctors' payments are determined by the results, where digital records are widely shared and where costs are mitigated by a vastly expanded pool of people with insurance. This is the heart of the that was approved by Congress, was affirmed by the courts and is being implemented this year. We have a health care system that consumes 17 percent of the national economy and is unsustainable if it follows the current tracks. Today, new tracks are being built, complete with a set of guideposts, a checklist of both critical questions and potential milestones: Will companies cover their workers? Employer-provided health insurance remains the linchpin of the nation's health care system, covering nearly 60 percent of those under 65. But in a sluggish economy, companies may be tempted to curtail coverage.