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Health Care Reform: Trends Driven by the Evolution of U.S. Health Care Policy

July 4, 2017

The US health care system today is fraught with wasteful spending that does not contribute to better outcomes for patients. Fortunately, many initiatives exist in both the public and private sector that are intended to increase the efficiency of the system. Three federal initiatives — the HITECH Act, the Health Data Initiative, and the Affordable Care Act — are designed to help make the US health care system more productive and to bring health care costs down for self-insured employers and individuals. Several trends may emerge as a result of these changes over the next several years, including movement toward outcome-based payments, higher productivity, decreased demand for hospital-based care and better, more efficient markets.

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