The Chancellor Group has made a contribution to the debate on health care reform by researching and analyzing issues, and helping to increase awareness and education about health reform issues.

This one page summary of how to reform health care was prepared by Chancellor Group partner David Allen in his capacity as President of the Minnesota Physician-Patient Alliance:  MPPA on Healthcare Reform.pdf (139.05 kb)

This educational presentation has been made by David Allen to several physician and community groups.  It provides an overview of health care costs and trends, and compares and contrasts health care reform proposals to "Stay the Course", "Government Financed" and Market Based".  It points out that none of the options have widespread political support and jokingly suggests that maybe we could all just agree to lower health care costs by eating the elderly.  Click this to see the presentation: Health Care Reform A Modest Proposal.pdf (509.92 kb).

One important piece of the health care reform puzzle is how to manage chronic health care.  As President of the Minnesota-Physician Patient Alliance, Chancellor Group partner David Allen helped create an analysis of why disease management should NOT be done by third parties like managed care organizations: Disease Management.pdf (133.16 kb)

"Best Practices" are sometimes identified as a key to third party quality management to be imposed on provider organizations.  In this essay, Chancellor Group partner David Allen points out some of the problems with third parties imposing "Best Practices": The Problem with Best Practices.pdf (121.16 kb)