title: The underlying theories of health care reform in the United States--strategy implications for hospitals.
abstract: The United State Health Reform (Affordable Care Act) presents health provides with the goals that should be achieved in the reformed health care environment and rationale for those goals. Developing strategies to implement the act's policies by any health care organization must take into account the underlying theories of the act: managed change though payment design and funds flow. Market place competition. To execute strategy effective internal organizational management is a must and can be facilitated through a strong alignment between mission and opperating factors. The mission must relate to the organization's markets. Markets are best addressed through a local perspective where the ACA goals can be applied within a specific community or culture. The systems approach brings as many participants in the system to define their mutual success as it relates to reform.
authors.affiliation: University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: McLaughlin
authors.forename: Jack
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Militello
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006739:Hospital Administration; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D058991:Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; D014481:United States