Design objectives for SecureChoice
• Ensure the long-term viability of adequate coverage for critical health-care needs alongside constantly improving quality and efficiency, i.e., value
• Bring the rate of growth in expenditure on health care more in line with its ability to enhance value for patients
• Empower physicians and other health professionals with more freedom in their practices, more information, and more responsibility for the care of their patients
• In designing a new health care payment system, not everything can be predicted; to the extent possible, the system should have information and feedback loops to be self-adjusting
• Minimize the direct role of government in decision-making around technical issues to facilitate innovation and reduce the power of interest groups
• Use government to ensure the affordability of coverage, the open availability of data and information, and effective competition in the market
• Facilitate the expression of personal values and preferences in how people selection their options for coverage and care, while recognizing that some choices may have economic impacts that should be considered