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TMA's Health System Reform Task Force, chaired by Nancy Dickey, MD, is using the 17 guiding principles approved by the TMA House of Delegates to answer ten key questions and develop TMA’s own proposal for system reform. As p[art of that process, the task force will answer 10 key questions:
They are:
- How should we provide coverage for all Americans?
- How should we finance such coverage, and determine how much to spend on care?
- How should we measure overall effectiveness of a reformed system, particularly re: smoking, alcohol abuse, obesity and untreated depression?
- How should we specifically measure clinical performance in a reformed system using more precise clinical feedback and electronic medical records ?
- How should health promotion and disease prevention effectiveness be measured in a reformed system, in focusing on wellness as opposed to disease?
- How should a physician led health care team be incentivized to best care for patients in a reformed system?
- How should our health care system be organized and administered?
- What should the role of the federal government be in our health care system?
- In a pluralistic approach should private profit continue to be a central component of financing our health care system?
- Should we keep the traditional notion of “insurance” (indemnification against loss/catastrophe) in our system or emphasize scheduled benefits instead?
Last Published: 5/18/2009 Print this page
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