Health Affairs July 12, 2017
Robert Pearl and Norman Chenven

The last few months have been an anxious time in health care policy with calls to repeal, replace, repair, and delay repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Daily, elected officials face angry constituents fearful of losing their coverage. What is clear is that voters want affordable, convenient, technologically enabled, high-quality medical care. We believe such care is possible, but only by leveraging the “doctor-patient” relationship and transforming how medical care is structured, measured, and reimbursed.

We are physicians who have led two of the nation’s highest-performing health care systems: Kaiser Permanente and the Austin Regional Clinic. We base our recommendations on work we have done with other physician leaders of the nation’s largest multi-specialty medical groups through the Council...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, HHS, MACRA, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Value Based
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