Commentary: Measuring the Candidates on Health Care

Abstract

The standard I use to evaluate the candidates' positions on health care reform is the Jackson Hole Group initiative, a comprehensive proposal to remedy many sources of market failure and inequity in our present system, to foster an effective, decentralized market in the private sector, and to ensure everyone's access to it.^{1 , 2} The Jackson Hole Group is an informal group of health profession and industry leaders and policy analysts who meet periodically in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The group's proposal has five key elements, dealing with integrated financing and delivery of health care, managed competition, health insurance for small groups of . . .