Health Care Reform is certainly a hot topic this summer and into the fall. However, the American Heart Association has been talking about patient centered health care reform since 1992!
While the discussion will certainly continue, learn more about the American Heart Association's position on this important issue.
The American Heart Association has a longstanding commitment to approaching health care reform from the patient’s perspective. This focus – including the important roles that health care providers, biomedical research and the health care delivery system play – is reflected in AHA’s past and current positions on meaningful health care reform.
In 1992, AHA’s Board of Directors approved five key principles for access to health care. They concentrated on patient access to preventive services and quality health care and continued biomedical research to improve the prevention and treatment of heart disease and stroke.
More than 15 years later, some progress has been made in achieving this vision – particularly with regard to developing guidelines for appropriate patient care and methods to measure quality, evaluate outcomes and determine cost-effectiveness.
However, more Americans than ever lack health insurance, presenting a major barrier to receiving quality health care. These include children with congenital heart disease, who formerly would have died, but now survive to confront these challenges. And after an initial doubling, the National Institutes of Health’s budget has fallen flat with an actual reduction in purchasing power because funding has failed to keep pace with biomedical research inflation.
In this summary document, AHA updates what it believes to be the six critical principles that must be addressed if health care in the United States is to be effective, equitable and excellent.
Use this link to read about the critical principles or visit www.heartforhealthcare.org
While the discussion will certainly continue, learn more about the American Heart Association's position on this important issue.
The American Heart Association has a longstanding commitment to approaching health care reform from the patient’s perspective. This focus – including the important roles that health care providers, biomedical research and the health care delivery system play – is reflected in AHA’s past and current positions on meaningful health care reform.
In 1992, AHA’s Board of Directors approved five key principles for access to health care. They concentrated on patient access to preventive services and quality health care and continued biomedical research to improve the prevention and treatment of heart disease and stroke.
More than 15 years later, some progress has been made in achieving this vision – particularly with regard to developing guidelines for appropriate patient care and methods to measure quality, evaluate outcomes and determine cost-effectiveness.
However, more Americans than ever lack health insurance, presenting a major barrier to receiving quality health care. These include children with congenital heart disease, who formerly would have died, but now survive to confront these challenges. And after an initial doubling, the National Institutes of Health’s budget has fallen flat with an actual reduction in purchasing power because funding has failed to keep pace with biomedical research inflation.
In this summary document, AHA updates what it believes to be the six critical principles that must be addressed if health care in the United States is to be effective, equitable and excellent.
Use this link to read about the critical principles or visit www.heartforhealthcare.org
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