Question:PART 1 Financing Healthcare

 

Please add your own thoughts and sources to this topic -- to start you thinking, explore this graphic: http://www.chcf.org/publications/2015/12/data-viz-hcc-national 

 

 

What do you think? Is spending money on healthcare a problem? Should we be comparing the U.S. to other countries or is that misleading? What does the future look like? Other thoughts?

 

 

PART 2 Prevention & Wellness

 

 

Please add your own thoughts and sources to this topic -- to get you thinking, consider this from the Healthcare Leadership Council:  (https://www.hlc.org/population-health/wellness/ (Links to an external site.)

 

"Provisions included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) reaffirmed the importance of wellness and prevention among public and private payers, in community funding, and in the workplace. These reforms are a positive step; however, hurdles still exist that prevent the healthcare system from fully adopting a model built on well-being. Financial disincentives, regulatory barriers, and the way policies are evaluated prevent the total transformation needed to embark more fully on a system designed with prevention in mind. In addition, many patients are not educated or empowered to take charge of their own health or live in environments that hinder achieving better health and well-being. With over 85 percent of healthcare dollars currently going to treat preventable chronic diseases, it is imperative that the healthcare system better prevent and manage these conditions."Prevention & Wellness

 

Please add your own thoughts and sources to this topic -- to get you thinking, consider this from the Healthcare Leadership Council:  (https://www.hlc.org/population-health/wellness/ (Links to an external site.)

 

"Provisions included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) reaffirmed the importance of wellness and prevention among public and private payers, in community funding, and in the workplace. These reforms are a positive step; however, hurdles still exist that prevent the healthcare system from fully adopting a model built on well-being. Financial disincentives, regulatory barriers, and the way policies are evaluated prevent the total transformation needed to embark more fully on a system designed with prevention in mind. In addition, many patients are not educated or empowered to take charge of their own health or live in environments that hinder achieving better health and well-being. With over 85 percent of healthcare dollars currently going to treat preventable chronic diseases, it is imperative that the healthcare system better prevent and manage these conditions."

 

PART 3 Access to Healthcare

 

Please add your own thoughts and sources to this topic -- to start you thinking, a study released 4/10/2016 in JAMA found that access to healthcare did not correlate with life expectancy! Wait, what?! I thought if we get more doctors, more facilities, more healthcare for the people that we'd be healthier...is that a myth? Why is access part of the solution for 'better health/outcomes'? 

Opinion article: http://www.drjohnm.org/2016/04/access-to-healthcare-does-not-deliver-health/

 

 

JAMA study: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2513561#jsc160006r34

 

PART 4

 

Please add your own thoughts and sources to this topic -- the discussion can go many ways! To get you thinking, consider this from the National Business Group on Health (non-profit organization advocating for large employers). Do large employers have different interests in public policy than other groups? What other "priority" lists can you find? How do we move forward? 

 

Public Policy Priority Issues 2016

·        Repeal the ACA Excise ("Cadillac") Tax

·        Maintain the Current Tax Treatment of Employer-Sponsored Benefits

·        Support Aggressive Payment and Delivery ReformMoving Away from Fee-for-Service (FFS) to Shared Risk Models (Primary Care/Medical Homes, ACOs, Pay-for-Value and Bundling)

·        Support Sustainable Pricing for New Specialty Pharmacy

·        Support Site Neutral Payment Policies

·        Ensure New Rules Preserve and Enhance Employer Wellness Programs

·        Preserve ERISA & Support Comprehensive Health Care Legal Reform

·        Oppose Anti-Competitive Provider/Supplier Consolidation

·        Assure Favorable Regulatory Implementation of the ACA and Support Legislative ImprovementsChange the FT EE definition from 30 to 40 hours per week

·        Eliminate the (Federal/State) ACA Transitional Reinsurance Fee and Oppose Extension

·        Simplify Employer Reporting

·        Increase Employer Input on ACA Preventive Services Mandates

·        Remove State Legal Barriers/Support Lower Cost and Non-Traditional Sources of Primary Care

·        Maintain Flexibility for Employer Leave Policies

·        Enhance Health Accounts

·        Support Maturation/Stabilization of the Public Exchanges

(https://www.businessgrouphealth.org/resources/public_policy/index.cfm

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