Health Affairs has published a package of papers on the value equation and what has become a paramount question in health care: What should we pay for and how much?
As a depressed economy further limits the resources available for health care, desires and demands for care must be balanced against various realities, including the effectiveness of care or the desire for other goods and services. The papers consider the need for this balance, as well as questions of measurement, the influence of the payment system, and the locus of accountability for quality.
Many of the papers in the package were initially presented at the Fifteenth Annual Princeton Conference in May 2008, which considered the question “Can Payment and Other Innovations Improve the Quality and Value of Health Care?”
Read the papers.
