The Health Care Blog: Three Initiatives to Reduce Costs and Increase Health Care Efficiencies

Two major objectives underlying all current health care reform proposals are to reduce health care costs and to improve the quality of health care delivery. In my recent essay, part of the Society of Actuaries’ new essay collection on health care reform, I touched upon this health care efficiencies topic. There are three potential initiatives that may be undertaken by the government and the private sector: * Common provider fees * National data warehouse * Physician council These initiatives assume the creation of something similar to a National Health Board described in Tom Daschle’s book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis. This will to help provide input and organization on the health care reform work to be done. Full Post: The Health Care Blog: Three Initiatives to Reduce Costs and Increase Health Care Efficiencies