Healthcare cost increases continue to outpace the price and spending growth rates for the rest of the economy by a considerable margin (Olsen, Saunders, & Young, 2010). In 2060 lets refer to a “health system” rather than a “health care system” because the solutions need to focus on the ultimate outcome of interest — that is, the population's health and each individual's health — and not only on the formal system of care designed primarily to treat illness (Fineberg, 2012).
A successful health system has three attributes: healthy people, meaning a population that attains the highest level of health possible; superior care, meaning care that is effective, safe, timely, patient-centered, equitable, and efficient; and fairness, meaning that treatment