Need for Framework to Evaluate Health Care System Reforms

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Need for Framework to Evaluate Health Care System Reforms

• Cost, access, and quality challenges—together with obstacles to achieving efficiency—argue for both comprehensive and fundamental health care system reform.

• Comprehensive reform may need to be accomplished on an installment basis in order to minimize disruptions and facilitate political consensus.

• A framework can guide an orderly process for setting common goals and assessing proposed reforms.