They believe that they can achieve multiple, complementary objectives to improve the country’s health system performance. These objectives are the following:
- Make sure Americans have high quality of healthcare or reduce costs.
- They can be fiscally responsible or be generous and humane.
- Promote individual accountability or support people in need.
- Embrace a national vision or address each market.
“Payers, providers, and consumers know that we must reorient our health care system on value. To achieve this goal, we must align consumer and provider incentives, encourage more competition and innovation, reform insurance markets, expand proven state Medicaid innovations, and modernize the state and federal relationship,” as stated by the governors in their plan.
