Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to C A Lively.
The controversy over the national guidelines for health planning and appropriateness review is well-founded. There is no question that planning tools are required if the planning process is to have validity, but simplistic rules will only make planning chaotic. There must be room for input from the grass roots.
Reduced to its plainest terms, health planning is a means to facilitate genuine coordination and cooperation among the many components of the American health care system. The health planning law should give local community providers and consumers a better opportunity to make health planning work, but its success will depend on the willingness of the community to effect change through local decision making.