In 2009, a new administration will face the challenge to change healthcare in America. In order to stimulate the health policy community to begin this change process with a clear picture of what success will look like, IAF offers 2019 Healthcare That Works For All. This series of nine papers describes how different aspects of healthcare can improve through a ten year change process. We invite readers to challenge this view of the preferred future for healthcare by thinking about what might be even better.

The nine papers describe interrelated aspects of healthcare in 2019, beginning with:

• Values for Healthcare — IAF describes qualities that should shape practices, institutions and outcomes using America’s history as well as international value statements to conclude that we need a larger public dialogue on the values for healthcare.
  
  
• Health Economics — IAF analyzes the unsustainable trend toward expanding health costs and highlights possible future approaches to reversing this trend and producing more health for every dollar spent.
  
  
• Payment Systems — IAF identifies how the payment system realigns incentives by providing access to high quality, affordable healthcare for all Americans while containing costs through value-based purchasing.
  
  
• Delivery systems — IAF forecasts a mind change that centers healthcare delivery on a Health Home for all Americans with coordinated care and effective health management while specialized care is paid through comprehensive fees.
  
  
• Science and technology — IAF explores new advances in healthcare as well as ways to improve our system of innovation.
  
  
• Political change — IAF explores the ideologies, realignments and key constituencies that will affect the various government entities addressing change in healthcare.
  
  
• Policy — IAF forecasts the regulatory changes likely to affect the healthcare professions and industries such as pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and devices as greater transparency takes hold in healthcare.
  
  
• Infrastructure — IAF shows the changes likely to affect bricks & mortar, electronic networks, workforce, standard setting bodies and funding entities as healthcare evolves.
  
  
• Social & economic conditions — IAF forecasts the social and economic conditions that will shape changes coming to healthcare.

Each paper is designed with a common format that makes for a quick read and easy comparison. The papers include required changes, forecasts for successful changes, a sequence of pragmatic steps and a description of what happens if we fail to change.

Please send any comments or questions with regards to 2019 Healthcare That Works For All to: futurist@altfutures.com with 2019 in the Subject line.