eAlert Thu, 03/03/2016 - 12:00 d169d997-c1c0-4eca-9e8a-640e17a4e3a5

<p>Standards of performance achieved at home and abroad tell us that the U.S. health care system could be much better than it is. In a new <em>JAMA </em>Viewpoint, Commonwealth Fund President David Blumenthal, M.D., asks "what can realistically be expected, and how can the nation get there?"</p><p>In "Better Health Care: A Way Forward," Blumenthal focuses on three key areas: expanding access to health services, controlling costs, and improving quality of care. Read why he believes “the means to improve exist, if the political will exists to seize them.”</p>

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletters/ealerts/2016/mar/a-way-forward-to-better-health-care Read the summary