This book establishes a framework for assessing health care reform proposals and their implementation. It helps clarify objectives, identifies issues to be addressed in proposals, distinguishes between short- and long-term expectations and achievements, and directs attention to important but sometimes neglected questions about the organization and provision of health care services.

In addition, the volume presents a discussion and analysis of issues essential to achieving fundamental goals of health care reform: to maintain and improve health and well-being, to make basic health coverage universal, and to encourage the efficient use of limited resources.

The book is a useful resource for ... Read moreanyone developing or assessing options for reform.

• Front Matter
• Preamble
• Extending Access to Health Care
• Containing Health Care Costs
• Assuring the Quality of Care
• Financing Reform
• Improving the Infrastructure for Effective Change
• Conclusion
• References