"Better Ways to Pay for Health Care" Recommended by National Health Care Quality Coalition - RWJF

As Congress and the Obama Administration search for ways to reform health care, a new report demonstrates that rationing and price controls are not the only ways to control health care costs. Better Ways to Pay for Health Care: A Primer on Healthcare Payment Reform provides an easy-to-understand explanation of the problems with current health care payment systems, and describes alternative payment systems that will address these problems.

The concise guidebook, produced by the national nonprofit Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, demonstrates how the way we pay for health care today drives up costs and penalizes doctors and hospitals that deliver higher quality care. But the report doesn’t just document the problems—it explains alternative payment systems that can solve the problems without placing the kinds of restrictions on doctors and patients that doomed many managed care initiatives a decade ago.
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