Annals of Internal Medicine January 20, 2020
What would a better health care system for all Americans be like?
This is the question that the American College of Physicians (ACP) has been asking of its members since July 2018, when the ACP Board of Regents asked ACP’s Health and Public Policy Committee and Medical Practice and Quality Committee to “develop a new vision for the future of health care policy,” to exame ways to achieve universal coverage with improved access to care, reduce per capita health care costs and the rate of growth in spending, reform clinician compensation, and reduce the complexity of our health care system.
To develop this vision and recommend ways to realize it, ACP considered evidence on the effectiveness of health care in...