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Assessing Health Care Reform (1993)

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1993. Assessing Health Care Reform. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2099.
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Assessing Health Care Reform

Committee on Assessing Health Care Reform Proposals

Marilyn J. Field, Kathleen N. Lohr, and Karl D. Yordy, Editors

Division of Health Care Services

INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE

NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C.
1993

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1993. Assessing Health Care Reform. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2099.
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NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
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NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for this report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance.

The Institute of Medicine was chartered in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to enlist distinguished members of the appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. In this, the Institute acts under both the Academy’s 1863 congressional charter responsibility to be an adviser to the federal government and its own initiative in identifying issues of medical care, research, and education.

This study was supported by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation endowment fund.

Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 93-84089

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Copyright 1993 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1993. Assessing Health Care Reform. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2099.
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COMMITTEE ON ASSESSING HEALTH CARE REFORM PROPOSALS

WALTER J. McNERNEY (Chair),* Professor of Health Policy and Consultant,

J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago

LONNIE R. BRISTOW,* Private practice of internal medicine,

San Pablo, California

DON E. DETMER,* Professor of Surgery and Vice President for Health Science,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville

CLAIRE M. FAGIN,* Professor,

School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

JEROME H. GROSSMAN,* Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,

The New England Medical Center, Boston

MARGARET C. HEAGARTY,* Director of Pediatrics,

Harlem Hospital Center, and

Professor of Pediatrics,

College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York

JOSEPH P. NEWHOUSE,* John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management,

Division of Health Policy Research and Education, Harvard University, Boston

EDWARD B. PERRIN,* Professor and Chairman,

Department of Health Services, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle

GARY TISCHLER, Professor and Chairman,

Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine

REED V. TUCKSON, President,

Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles

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Member, Institute of Medicine

Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 1993. Assessing Health Care Reform. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2099.
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STUDY STAFF

Marilyn J. Field, Principal Staff Officer

Kathleen N. Lohr, Deputy Director,

Division of Health Care Services

Karl D. Yordy, Director,

Division of Health Care Services

Holly Dawkins, Research Assistant,

Division of Health Care Services

Don Tiller, Administrative Assistant,

Division of Health Care Services

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This book establishes a framework for assessing health care reform proposals and their implementation. It helps clarify objectives, identifies issues to be addressed in proposals, distinguishes between short- and long-term expectations and achievements, and directs attention to important but sometimes neglected questions about the organization and provision of health care services.

In addition, the volume presents a discussion and analysis of issues essential to achieving fundamental goals of health care reform: to maintain and improve health and well-being, to make basic health coverage universal, and to encourage the efficient use of limited resources.

The book is a useful resource for anyone developing or assessing options for reform.

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