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 fundamental system reform.

  • Reforms, although comprehensive, may need to be incremental in order to minimize disruptions and facilitate political consensus.

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