The Health Priorities Project promotes the creation of an Information Age health care system that joins individual choice and responsibility with universal access to the information and resources that people need to improve their health. We recognize the complex interactions between science, politics, and the marketplace, and seek to develop a coherent, dynamic, and integrated health policy that can achieve the following goals:

• Enhance accountability for health by enabling and encouraging health professionals to improve their performance and individuals to take better care of themselves;
• Modernize Medicare and Medicaid not only to preserve them for future generations, but also to create a universal system of affordable, private health insurance;
• Organize the information that people need to make good health decisions and invest more in health research and prevention in order to reduce the overconsumption of health services.

Overall, the project envisions a shift from a "top-down," illness-oriented system to a "bottom-up" system that promotes health and well-being.

Publications of Note

• A Health Insurance Tax Credit: The Key to Successful Health Care Reform, David B. Kendall, PPI Backgrounder, March 2000.
• Building a New Medicare for the New Economy, Jeff Lemieux, Tesitmony to the the Senate Finance Committee, February 29, 2000.
• A New Deal for Medicare and Medicaid: Building a Buyers' Market for Health Care, David B. Kendall, September 22, 1995--David B. Kendall.