AHPI Paper Establishes Framework for New Model of Employer-Facilitated Health Care

Federal Health Care Reform

The American Health Policy Institute's latest study, "Towards a New Model of Health Care: Employer-Facilitated Care," lays the theoretical and research basis for the recently announced Health Transformation Alliance (HTA), demonstrating how employers are in the best position of anyone to address the more disturbing trends in the health care marketplace.  The study answers the charge outlined in the March 2015 "Call to Action," which first presented the concept of employer-facilitated health care, and details large employers' concerns about the current health care system and how the preferred model will work.  The study notes that a number of trends in the health care marketplace—notably, supply chain consolidation, increasing lack of affordability of both public and private health care plans, and the lack of true quality and price transparency—will bring the current employer-sponsored health insurance system to a halt in the absence of employer change.  Dr. Tevi Troy, CEO of the American Health Policy Institute and co-author of the study, said, "Recognizing that this worsening trend cannot continue, and seeing firsthand the harm it is inflicting on working American families, employers are best positioned to change the trend in today's environment—without relying on any political or regulatory action in Washington."  The 20 HTA Founders convened earlier this week for their first official meeting to begin building a better way of providing health care.  The HTA continues to receive positive media attention from ModernMedicine, CFO Journal, The Leapfrog Group, Fortune, NPR, Modern Healthcare, and others, following last week's announcement.