The Hope Street Group, a nonpartisan, ideologically diverse group of business and policy leaders, has agreed on a core set of  health reform principles aimed at comprehensive reforms that will create a system that is both more economically sustainable and socially equitable.

Here are the 8 main points (in abbreviated form... for more nuance, click the link above)

1. High quality, affordable basic health care coverage for all, including preventive care
2. New payment and incentive models to promote coordinated care and reward higher value and better   outcomes
3. Faster generic drug introductions
4. Strengthen primary care and prevention to improve public health
5. Establish a comparative effectiveness entity with dissemination authority
6. Quality and price transparency  to help people make informed, value-conscious decisions.
7. Promote investments in "wiring" the health care system
8. Promote a health care system that is both fiscally responsible and sustainable, for both the private and public sectors

"The fact that such a diverse group could agree on so many fundamental tenets of comprehensive reform gives me great hope about our nation's prospects in the months ahead," said New America health policy director Len Nichols, one of the signatories. He said agreeing on an individual mandate was a particular step past "a key philosophical barrier."

The organization's Bipartisan Working Group began meeting in June 2008. Later this month, Hope Street Group holds its third annual Opportunity Economics Colloquium, during which participants will join with other political, business and civic leaders to address tough questions in health care reform, including how to pay for it.