Webinar #1: The Case for Multifaceted Public Policy Intervention

Catalyst for Payment Reform (CPR)

NEWSFLASH: HEALTH CARE MARKETS ARE BROKEN

The Case for Multi-Faceted Policy Intervention

This Webinar series outlines combinations of state-based policy options that provide a roadmap for policymakers and advocates to improve competition and affordability.

Everyone is tired of hearing about how broken our health care system is. We know: prices keep rising, hospitals keep merging, quality falters, disparities widen. And over the next few years, the outlook remains bleak. Experts predict that health care premiums will jump 5.6 percentage points over the previous year. 
It’s become painfully apparent that well-meaning, market-based interventions (price transparency, consumer-driven health plans, innovative care delivery models, even provider payment reform) cannot exert enough pressure to right this capsized ship. At this level of dysfunction, we need a more powerful force to referee the marketplace and level the playing field. We need government intervention – specifically, state government intervention.This Webinar, the first of four, lays out the case for combinations of state policy interventions designed to place downward pressure on commercial prices and rebalance market power.