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WASHINGTON, D.C.—On the eve of the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the U.S. Chamber’s Health Care Solutions Council released a report today outlining recommendations that focus on increasing value within our nation’s health care system, including additional reforms to control cost and improve quality. The report suggests ways to leverage the successes in the employer-sponsored health care system, and proposes changes—both regulatory and legislative—to build on private sector advances in improving value.
The recommended changes released by the Chamber’s Health Care Solutions Council include:
-Facilitating and rewarding better coordination among all providers – nurses, hospitals, specialists, and primary care doctors;
-Advancing efforts to define quality simply and clearly so that providers understand the metrics by which they will be measured;
-Removing barriers to easily understandable and comparable information on the cost and quality of health care services;
-Encouraging consumers to use this information to make health care decisions based on careful consideration of the expense and the likely outcome;
-Protecting the ability to buy (or offer) affordable health care coverage that promotes higher-value care in the near term; and
-Applying the lessons of these private sector reforms to improve Medicare and Medicaid by providing better care to the rapidly growing beneficiary populations served by these programs entitlement programs; and supporting innovations in the employer-sponsored system.
The Solutions Council’s report is available here if you're interested: Health Care Solutions from America's Business Community: The Path Forward for U.S. Health Reform | U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The recommended changes released by the Chamber’s Health Care Solutions Council include:
-Facilitating and rewarding better coordination among all providers – nurses, hospitals, specialists, and primary care doctors;
-Advancing efforts to define quality simply and clearly so that providers understand the metrics by which they will be measured;
-Removing barriers to easily understandable and comparable information on the cost and quality of health care services;
-Encouraging consumers to use this information to make health care decisions based on careful consideration of the expense and the likely outcome;
-Protecting the ability to buy (or offer) affordable health care coverage that promotes higher-value care in the near term; and
-Applying the lessons of these private sector reforms to improve Medicare and Medicaid by providing better care to the rapidly growing beneficiary populations served by these programs entitlement programs; and supporting innovations in the employer-sponsored system.
The Solutions Council’s report is available here if you're interested: Health Care Solutions from America's Business Community: The Path Forward for U.S. Health Reform | U.S. Chamber of Commerce
