John McCain Post #18

After looking through the University of Florida’s library I found an article about what people should take into consideration about healthcare and the plan to fix it. The article “A Business Proposal” from Modern Healthcare on August 4, 2008 gives Andrew Webber’s opinion about healthcare reform. He talks about how candidates should look to businesses for a part of the solution. Investing in technology, re-engineering, and workforce productivity could lead to improvements in product quality at a lower cost and overall cost control. Healthcare reform shouldn’t just be looked at for universal coverage but for quality and affordability equally as well.
Key Reform:
* Providing consumers with the information they need on provider price and quality, as well as the comparative effectiveness, of medical services, so they can make wise choices and better navigate their healthcare journey. * Changing payments and incentives to reward both providers and consumers for achieving improved health outcomes. * Adopting health information technology and interoperable systems by all providers to include passage of legislation that creates uniform HIT standards to enable a fragmented healthcare system to become connected and support patient-centered healthcare. * Shifting greater focus toward health promotion, disease prevention, and primary and chronic-care management rather than the current system's orientation toward "sick care." This focus should be promoted by payment reform initiatives.