Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA)  today released a set of policy proposals for reducing costs and improving quality in the health care delivery system. On Wednesday, the two senators will meet with other members of the Finance Committee to walk through the options. 

It's 50 pages and we haven't read it all yet but here for your convenience are some of the main areas of focus:

• Linking Payment to Quality Outcomes
• Promoting Primary Care
• Fostering Care Coordination and Provider Collaboration 
• Infrastructure Investments to Support Delivery System Reform 
• Promoting Quality, Efficiency, and Care Management in Medicare Advantage
• Combating Fraud, Waste, and Abuse 

“Everyone agrees that America’s health care system is broken,” said Baucus in a press release.  “ The policy options Senator Grassley and I are releasing today put some meat on the bones of those ideas to strengthen our discussion moving forward.  But nothing is set in stone.  I look forward to a robust dialogue with my colleagues on these ideas in the coming months, as we work together to build the comprehensive health reform this country needs.”

In the same release, Grassley talked about need to reform our delivery system and noted "The options for delivery reform are meant to take the best ideas from people who are doing things well and apply them everywhere we can.”