we should increase our efforts to improve coverage, quality, and cost, both by caring for individual patients and by improving our systems. By promoting a coordinated approach, begins with state demonstrations of new safety net and individual and private insurance approaches. The importance of this is making sure that everyone is being provided the safest most reliable coverage that can be provided.
As a result of the patient safety work, we now know that waste, overuse, and preventable injury are major causes of undue harm and the unnecessarily high cost of health care. Unless we deal with them, adding tens of millions of new patients to our already overburdened health care system will only make the problems worse. If health care reform addresses these issues within a systems-based approach, we will have ample resources to assure that all Americans have access to care and the system will be safer and perform at a higher level of responsiveness and effectiveness (NPSF,