Several recent articles regarding reforming our current healthcare system have been published in Annals of Internal Medicine (Jan 2020) and are open access.  Highlighted text in images below by Eric Topol, MD.

Link: Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: Health Care Delivery and Payment System Reforms

In this position paper, the American College of Physicians (ACP) proposes strategies to address social determinants of health and reduce barriers to care in order to achieve ACP’s vision for a better U.S. health care system for all. The ACP’s vision, outlined in an accompanying call to action (1), includes 10 vision statements, 4 of which are particularly relevant to the policies discussed in this paper (Figure). The companion position papers address improving payment and delivery systems (2) and coverage and cost of care (3). Together, these papers provide a policy framework to achieve ACP’s vision for a better U.S. health care system.

Link: Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: Coverage and Cost of Care

Link: The American College of Physician’s Endorsement of Single-Payor Reform

An excerpt:

Although no reform achieves perfection, evidence indicates that a well-structured single-payer reform might resolve our nation’s coverage and affordability problems, preserve the choices patients value, and allow doctors to focus on what matters most: caring for our patients.

Link: “Original Sin” and U.S. Health Care

An excerpt:

This series of articles describes a vision and makes important recommendations to improve coverage and control costs; reform health care delivery and payment to promote person-centered; high-value primary care; and address social and environmental determinants of health…

Seen through the lens of the American College of Physicians’ recommendations, how might addressing an original sin of failure to directly finance universal coverage in the United States facilitate progress on other recommendations?…

Implementation of the American College of Physicians’ recommendations, with an emphasis on promoting transparent, direct financing of universal access, holds great promise for replacing the current system of opaque and distorting subsidies with one that better serves all Americans.

Link: A New Vision for Quality and Equity

Link: Health is More Than Health Care

Link: Envisioning a Better U.S. Health Care System for All: A Call to Action by the American College of Physicians

Link:  The U.S. Health Care System Is Ill and Needs a Bold New Prescription