2023 Publications
The Better Care Plan: a blueprint for improving America’s healthcare system
Stephen M. Shortell MBA, MPH Ph.D, John T. Toussaint MD, George C. Halvorson, Jon M. Kingsdale SPH, Richard M. Scheffler PhD, Allyson Y. Schwartz MS., Peter A. Wadsworth MBA, Gail Wilensky PhD.
Abstract
The United States falls far short of its potential for delivering care that is effective, efficient, safe, timely, patient-centered, and equitable. We put
forward the Better Care Plan, an overarching blueprint to address the flaws in our current system. The plan calls for continuously improving care,
moving all payers to risk-adjusted prospective payment, and creating national entities for collecting, analyzing, and reporting patient safety and
quality-of-care outcomes data. A number of recommendations are made to achieve these goals.