Evaluating and Reforming the U.S. Health Care System

Many new studies and policy reports focus on the comparative performance of the U.S. health care system and recommendations for its redesign and improvement.

Websites and key publications:

The Commonwealth Fund: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall- An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care (2007): http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=482678
A Roadmap to Health Insurance for All - Principles for Reform (2007): http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=553840

The United Health Foundation: http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/
America's Health Rankings (2007): http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/ahr.html

The Institute of Medicine: http://www.iom.edu/
Knowing What Works in Health Care - A Roadmap for the Nation (2008): http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12038

The U.S. Census Bureau: http://census.gov/
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States (2006): http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthin06.html

The American Medical Association: http://www.ama-assn.org/
Voice for the Uninsured - The AMA Proposal: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/17712.html

Physicians for a National Health Program: http://www.pnhp.org/
Proposal of the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance (JAMA, vol.290, no. 6 (2003): http://www.pnhp.org/physiciansproposal/proposal/Physicians%20ProposalJAMA.pdf

California HealthCare Foundation: http://www.chcf.org/
Gauging the Progress of the National Health Information Technology Initiative (2008): http://www.chcf.org/documents/chronicdisease/GaugingTheProgressOfTheNationalHITInitiative.pdf