The proponents of health care reform have promised to pay for coverage expansion by “bending the cost curve” and squeezing out waste. Health care providers—hospitals, physicians and other service providers—have pledged to do their part by delivering “the right care for the right patient at the right time.”
To do so will require coordination among all providers caring for the patient (a team approach as opposed to a fragmented collection of individual caregivers), information sharing, preventive and primary care, quality measurement, accountability for results, and use of evidence-based medicine. These are the tools that “Health Care Reform,” more formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA),1 has prescribed for our ailing health care system.
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