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From the Editor

Innovations: ‘Medical Home’ Or Medical Motel 6?

AS U.S. POLICYMAKERS contemplate major health system reforms, much of the focus is on expanding access for the uninsured and finding the dollars to pay for it. But the more than four in five Americans who already have health insurance face far different problems, many of which could be boiled down to one sentence: It’s the delivery system, stupid. The many inadequacies in the way U.S. health care is organized and delivered require an overhaul. That’s the rationale behind this Health Affairs issue on delivery system innovation, funded by the California HealthCare Foundation.

But exactly how . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Susan Dentzer, Editor-In-Chief

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