The Sunday article looks at potential ways the Obama Administration can fix America's increasingly costly and outdated health care system. Improving quality while reducing costs are the ultimate aims, and the New York Times explores the potential of integrated systems to address these goals.

CHP/PCOR core faculty member Alain Enthoven draws on his over three decades of research on health care systems in the article, advocating giving consumers the option of traditional fee-for-service plans and integrated system. In Enthoven's proposal, which was a report submitted to the Center for Economic Development, consumers would keep the difference in premiums.

The Times quotes Enthoven on the potential of such an innovative system: "Medicine is a complicated team sport" he notes. "It takes an integrated system to keep the patient at the center of it."