Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Assessing Health Care Reform""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Preamble""; ""Extending Access to Health Care""; ""BARRIERS TO ACCESS""; ""FINANCIAL ACCESS""; ""Principles""; ""Practical Implications""; ""Assessing Access Provisions of Reform Proposals""; ""MORE THAN FINANCIAL ACCESS""; ""Containing Health Care Costs""; ""COSTS IN CONTEXT""; ""ELEMENTS OF A STRATEGY""; ""Specific Elements""; ""Elements Not Mentioned""; ""MOVING FROM GENERAL TO SPECIFIC POLICIES""; ""Administrative Costsâ€?and Benefits""; ""Tax Caps and Geographic Variations in Health Care Costs""
  • ""Patient Cost Sharing and Special Problems""""Core and Supplemental Benefits""; ""Risk Selection versus Cost Containment""; ""Assuring the Quality of Care""; ""DEFINING QUALITY""; ""QUALIFY MEASUREMENT AND IMPROVEMENT""; ""Major Targets""; ""Criteria for a Strategy""; ""Individual and System Perspectives""; ""Roles and Responsibilities""; ""System Problems""; ""CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES""; ""SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS""; ""Financing Reform""; ""Improving the Infrastructure for Effective Change""; ""GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION""; ""HUMAN AND PHYSICAL CAPITAL""; ""Human Capital""
  • ""Physical Capital""""KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT""; ""Databases, Surveys, and Information Technologies""; ""Privacy and Confidentiality of Sensitive Personal Health Data""; ""Health Services, Outcomes, and Effectiveness Research""; ""Technology Assessment""; ""PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES AND PROGRAMS""; ""OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES""; ""Programs for Special Populations""; ""Tort Reform""; ""Public/Consumer Education""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""