Getting Our Health Care System on Track - AARP

The current health care system will be unsustainable if it keeps its current track of spending. ? Corbis

What we must do, he continues, is construct a second set of tracks for the train where health care is provided by teams delivering comprehensive care, where doctors' payments are determined by the results, where digital records are widely shared and where costs are mitigated by a vastly expanded pool of people with insurance. This is the heart of the health care reform that was approved by Congress, was affirmed by the courts and is being implemented this year.

We have a health care system that consumes 17 percent of the national economy and is unsustainable if it follows the current tracks.

Today, new tracks are being built, complete with a set of guideposts, a checklist of both critical questions and potential milestones:

Will companies cover their workers?

Employer-provided health insurance remains the linchpin of the nation's health care system, covering nearly 60 percent of those under 65. But in a sluggish economy, companies may be tempted to curtail coverage.

Source: http://www.aarp.org/health/health-insurance/info-04-2013/getting-health-care-system-on-track.html

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