Borrowing Business Practices to Improve Medicare
Health Insurance Reform Project
From 1995 to 2001, George Washington University started the Health Insurance Reform Project (HIRP) to help policy-makers and others in the health care field understand changes and innovations occurring in the health care and insurance markets. HIRP developed a number of recommendations, such as:
- Medicare could benefit from adapting some private sector innovations in providing health care to consumers.
- Recent Medicare reform, which allows both a government-run model and a private-sector model, could serve as a model for broader health care reform.