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A Focused Remedy is Best Cure for Health Care Crisis

January 8, 2009 | Commentary/Story

As Washington turn its eye toward health care reform, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., and Vernice Davis Anthony, president and CEO of the Greater Detroit Area Health Council, urge policy-makers to focus on what it means to "fix" health care and ask the hard questions about how medical care is delivered in this commentary published in the Detroit Free Press.

A Tour of the Proposals

March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief/Commentary

To help direct people to reform plans that may be most useful to their current work, we now categorize the plans developed under the Covering America Project.

Bending the Cost Curve

October 12, 2009 | Commentary

This commentary identifies methods to slow the increase in health care costs in the United States. The current proposed expansion of health insurance will cost the country an estimated trillion dollars over 10 years. To make this expansion possible, increases in the cost of health care must be curbed.

Collaborating Where Health Happens

March 9, 2009 | Commentary

This article, written by Senior Program Officer Jane Isaacs Lowe, appeared as "Views from the Field" in the March 9, 2009 GIH Bulletin and focuses on where health starts.

Conclusion

March 25, 2009 | Issue Brief/Commentary

Covering America: A Timely Reprise

Health Care Reform Requires Accountable Care Systems

July 2, 2008 | Commentary

This paper explores the concept of accountable care systems (ACS), which may help improve the quality and care provided by physicians and hospitals in the United States. The authors offer several suggestions for implementing these organizational structures.

Leveling the Field

December 17, 2009 | Commentary

The major reform proposals' intent to increase coverage may address some of the racial and ethnic disparities that continue to exist in the U.S. health care system. With so much focus on national health reform, this article reminds readers of both the challenges of and opportunities for equity in its implementation.

Medicaid and the US Path to National Health Insurance

January 22, 2009 | Commentary

The U.S. already has in place a working system that policy-makers could enlarge to achieve universal health coverage: Medicaid. This perspective analysis proposes using Medicaid to cover the uninsured. The author argues Medicaid is a flexible program with bipartisan appeal.