Source Notes III

The Role of Government in Health Care Quality (National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, July 17, 1998 )

SUMMARY: A discussion of the health care bills and quality. With experts speaking on the issues and what the problems in the systems are. Giving strategies for the health care system to meet the demands of the public, for both quality and research. There is also discussion on where the government should come into play in the health care system.

TOPIC: Should the government arrange for hospitals to network to help standardize the cost of health care?

CATEGORY: Academic Research

PUBLICATION INFORMATION: A non-profit research foundation trying to improve the quality of health care. Providing communication between health care industries and the government to find a solution for the insurance problems.

AUTHOR: Dirksen Senate Office Building

LOCATION: The Role of Government in Health Care Quality (http://www.nihcm.org/publications/quality )

ACCESSED: February 12, 2008

SUPPORT: Senator Bill Frist, Chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety; Agency for Healthcare Quality Research; Mark R. Chassin, MD. chairman of the Department of  Health Policy  at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Robert H. Brook, MD. researcher at RAND and the UCLA Center for health Sciences; John E. Wennberg, MD. director of the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Studies at Dartmouth Medical School; J. Randall McDonald, executive vice president for human resources and administration at GTE Corporation; Thomas R. Hefty, chairman and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield United of Wisconsin; Lenord D. Schaffer, chairman and CEO of WellPoint Health Networks and Blue Cross of California; Gail Wilensky, PhD; Robert Brook, MD; Robert Reischauer, PhD

AUDIENCE & AGENDA: The NIHCM is the voice between the government and the health care companies, trying to relay information. Looking at both sides, research and policy, the NIHCM’s goal is to find solutions for the health cares problems.

USEFULNESS: This article gives opinions of experts and Senators on the government coming into the health care system and lowering cost. There is still a battle between many officals on whether you can meet the demand, while still keeping the quality of health care high. The more available health care becomes the easier it is for consumers to make more informed decisions about the health care that they choose. With the funding that would come from the government science would move forward, lowering cost even more. Still there is a debate over the government stepping all the way into the health care system.

WORK CITED: http://www.nihcm.org/publications/quality, http://www.nihcm.org/