title: Health care reform: why we cannot afford to fail.
abstract: Under the auspices of the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center, the authors of this Perspective participated in a two-year consensus-building process among more than 2,000 health care stakeholders. The result was agreement on reforming U.S. health care along four key principles: improving health care quality and value; undertaking payment reform; vastly improving coordination of care; and providing insurance coverage for all. The authors expand on these ideas and make additional recommendations for how health care financing and delivery should be transformed as soon as possible.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cortese
authors.forename: Jeffrey O
authors.initials: JO
authors.lastname: Korsmo
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000379:methods*; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D011340:Problem Solving; D017064:Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States