Fierce Healthcare April 4, 2024
Employer-sponsored coverage remains the main way half of Americans secure healthcare, and the Commonwealth Fund said Thursday that it would launch a new task force aimed at addressing affordability and access.
The organization said the National Task Force on the Future Role of Employers in the U.S. Health System is aiming to identify market incentives and regulatory policies that could drive better healthcare for workers, including improvements to population health and care delivery.
The task force’s members include representatives from organizations across the political spectrum such as the Urban Institute; the American Enterprise Institute; Harvard University; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Peter Lee, senior scholar at Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence...