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Prescription for Pennsylvania: Universal Coverage and Cost Control

By Jon @ my policy health discussion central - Sep 8th, 2007 at 1:53 am EDT

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Among the state efforts at health care reform is Governor Ed Rendell's "Prescription for Pennsylvania" plan. The Governor recently discussed the plan with US news. Read the interview here.

The plan aims for universal coverage in Pennsylvania but it is also interesting to see how much Governor Rendell emphasizes health care management and the cost control side as a competitiveness issue for the state's businesses providing health care coverage for employees. Among the measures in the Pennsylvania plan: 1) implementing a team approach to treating chronic diseases, stressing overall case management (and providing reimbursement accordingly), to reduce high hospitalization costs, 2) increasing controls required of hospitals designed to reduce costly, hospital-acquired infections, and 3) plans to encourage the use of primary care physicians over trips to the emergency room.

To read more about Prescription for Pennsylvania, you can click here. What do you think? Will the state by state approach to health care reform be effective?

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