How can we improve health care? The California Task Force on Affordable Care gives its top 10 recommendations in this report. The report’s slogan is “ten ways Californians can save over $300 billion.” These recommendations include:
- Implement bundled payments
- Hold hospitals accountable for progress in reducing utilization in targeted areas such as imaging
- Directly act to reduce hospital readmissions and hospital acquired infections
- Develop best practice guidelines that protect providers who use appropriate medical judgments in targeted high-cost areas
- Common standards for billing, eligibility, and contracting
- Merge California’s two health insurance regulators, the Department of Insurance and the Department of Managed Healthcare.
- Create a sole-source insurance exchange for individuals and small businesses
- Increase support for shared decision making
- Impose a tax on high calorie, sweetened beverages.
- Make walking, biking, and the use of public transit viable, affordable, safe, and attractive
I will divide these ideas into the Good, the Mixed and the Bad.
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