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Assignment: Political and Economic Aspects of Health

Challenge Questions

Challenge Questions (6 - 10 pages)

1. What is the real and perceived performance of the U.S. healthcare system? Elaborate on the views expressed by Khazan. Are these views different among patients, providers, payers, employers and policymakers? Identify all critical stakeholders and criteria they may use to evaluate health system performance.

Khazan. U.S. Healthcare: Most Expensive and Worst Performing. The Atlantic. Jun 16 2014

2. Is healthcare a right? Should the government play a key role in aiding the uninsured or should market forces reign supreme?While your opinion is highly valued, you must justify your answers based on readings and outside sources.

3. Identify and explain 3 key indicators of health system performance.

4. In the Triple Aim, Berwick and colleagues identify a path forward to a more effective health system that shifts the burden from provider organizations to the political arena. Briefly describe the "triple" aim. What are the preconditions necessary and what should the focus become to meet the triple aim. How can health policy achieve the goal of achieving the triple aim?

Donald M. Berwick, Thomas W. Nolan, and John Whittington. The Triple Aim: Care, Health, And Cost. Health Affairs, 27, no.3 (2008):759-769

5. In Porter's article on strategies that fix healthcare he is predicting that the health system will become value based. What does he mean by that? Briefly describe the value agenda and the 6 strategies needed to achieve a value-driven system? What is the role of health policy in achieving the aims described by Porter? (e.g. how is the ACA driving change?)

Porter, M & Lee, T. The strategy that will fix healthcare. HBR, Oct 2013.