Slouching Toward Value-Based Health Care

Slouching toward value-based health care.

Health Care D e s p i t e s om e r e c e n t moderation, health care costs continue to grow at rates exceeding those of the larger economy, as documented in the annual assessment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), with which we begin this issue of the journal. Spending growth is not necessarily a problem, assuming the benefits in terms of enhanced health and social well-be...

Slouching toward a systems approach to treatment.

Both the health care sector generally and the alcohol and drug field are moving toward a truly systematic approach to treatment, accelerated by the anticipated advent of health care reform. There is considerable reluctance to develop systems. Many are not convinced of their necessity, and systematization inevitably involves a decrement in autonomy for the components of the system. Nor are syste...

Value-based health care delivery.

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Reaching for Utopia and slouching toward Gomorrah.

It is a unique privilege to address the 50th annual meeting of the CNS during this first year of a new century and a new millennium. I owe recognition and thanks to many people for their overwhelming support. I thank my parents, Dr. and Mrs. Warren Barrow, and my grandmother, Mrs. Emma Pessina, for providing me with a nurturing environment, an education, and encouragement to pursue my career an...

The Road to Value-Based Health Care