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Six points of the “RWJF Blueprint for Change” in The Road to Reform in relation to the “10 Ways to Cut HealthCare Costs Right Now”

Six points of the “RWJF Blueprint for Change” in The Road to Reform in relation to the “10 Ways to Cut HealthCare Costs Right Now”

Introduction

The American healthcare system is fragmented and not geared toward promoting health. Over the past several months, as President Obama and U.S. Congressional leaders grappled with reforming it, several organizations weighed in with suggestions.

Catherine Arnst, in her landmark paper titled, “10 Ways to Cut Health Care Costs Right Now,” addresses multiple ways in which U.S. can cut its health care costs. These 10 points of Arnst share relevance with Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey presidential message at the 2009 Annual President's Message of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). In the message, Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey addressed efforts of the foundation to improve the health care of all Americans and showed support towards the implementation of health care reform.

Discussion

Arnst's 10 ways to cut health care cost and Dr. Lisa Lavizzo-Mourey's six points of the RWJF Blueprint for Change offers similarity while dealing wit health care issue. Both identify ways in which the United States may seek to fix its health care crisis. These 6 key points of Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey are: covering the uninsured, improving the quality, value and equality of health care, preventing disease and promoting healthier lifestyles, strengthening public health's capacity to protect health, bringing down spending and addressing the social determinants of health.

Arnst's 10 ways to cut health care cost are: reducing fraud and abuse, developing a healthy workforce, family doctors coordination, healthy community effort, stopping infections, asking patients to take medicine, using insurance for chronic disease, discussing options near the end of life, apologizing to the patient and well-informed patients ...