title: Health reform: getting the essentials right.
abstract: As the ninety-year history and failure of health care reform illustrates, it is easy for policymakers to disagree about the details of any new plan. In this Perspective, the author suggests trying a new approach this time: enacting a plan that encompasses four essential principles and then making midcourse adjustments later to get the details right. He defines the essentials as the Four Cs: coverage, cost control, coordinated care, and choice.
authors.affiliation: Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. vfuchs@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Victor R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Fuchs
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003191:Comprehensive Health Care / Q000592:standards; D003363:Cost Control / Q000592:standards; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000592:standards; D011050:Policy Making; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States