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    Can we learn anything from health care in the United States?

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    Authors
    Anstey, Matthew
    Elshaug, A.
    Russell, L.
    Wells, S.
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Anstey, M. and Elshaug, A. and Russell, L. and Wells, S. 2014. Can we learn anything from health care in the United States? Medical Journal of Australia. 200 (9): pp. 526-528.
    Source Title
    Medical Journal of Australia
    DOI
    10.5694/mja13.11357
    ISSN
    0025-729X
    School
    Department of Health Policy and Management
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22848
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    • Curtin Research Publications
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    Summary: • Some aspects of health care in the United States would be beneficial to Australia and New Zealand, but others should be avoided.• Positive aspects, which should be emulated, include: • health care reform that is focused on the continuum of care and patient-centred care • trials of new models to organise, deliver and pay for health care services, where quality of care is rewarded over quantity of services • an integral view of, and strong support for, health services research as a means of evaluating reforms aimed at improving patient outcomes and systems-level efficiencies • physician engagement in reforms - for example, participating in the Choosing Wisely initiative, and trialling and implementing new payment models that are not fee-for-service. • Negative aspects, which should be avoided, include: • increasingly fragmented provider and financing structures (funding provided by state and federal governments, private insurance and out-of-pocket costs) that cause frustration in terms of access and care coordination and increase administrative waste • an overemphasis on technological solutions, with insufficient acknowledgment of the importance of addressing value in health care • a focus on hospital and doctor-based health care rather than environmental and social inputs into health. After studying, researching and working in health care in the United States, we reflect on aspects of the American health care system that Australia and New Zealand would benefit from emulating and aspects that we should avoid.

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