Health care reform: why? What? When?

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Ethical Issues in Health Care Reform

The subject of health care reform is much in our minds these days. On the one hand, it is difficult to find anyone who admits to being opposed to health care reform. On the other hand, I think we may all easily foresee it is going to be extremely difficult to come up with a health care reform program that will satisfy everyone. So, if almost everyone agrees it needs fixing, why is it so difficu...

Achieving Health Care Reform in the United States: Toward a Whole-System Understanding

The U.S. health care system faces serious problems of high cost, limited access, unequal treatment, and inadequate health protection. Though these problems have persisted for decades and various reforms have been attempted, the overall impact of reform efforts has been only modest. This paper examines potential types of reform and the history of reform efforts. Causalloop diagrams are presented...

IP-49: Guide for a Public Issues Gathering: Rethinking Our Choices on Health Care Reform

Most of us agree on what’s wrong with our health care system: spiraling costs, millions without insurance or millions more with inadequate coverage, a growing fear that the health care system will not be there when we need it, and the realization that despite the highest expenditures in the world and leading-edge medical technologies we still rank below most other industrialized nations on many...

Aging, Pensions and Long-term Care: What, Why, Who, How?; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Japan has been aging faster than other industrialized nations, and its experience offers useful lessons to others. Japan has been willing to expand its welfare state with a long-term care (LTC) insurance to finance home care and nursing home care for frail elderly. As Ikegami shows, it created new facilities and expanded specialized staffing for home care, developed a c...