This report from the Brooking Institute is a follow-up on a previously released report that provides insight on how to slow spending while maintaining quality. This report maintains the suggestions of the previous report, but puts those suggestions in context of the Affordable Care Act.

From the executive summary:

In September 2009, we released a set of concrete, feasible steps that could achieve the goal of significantly slowing spending growth while improving the quality of care. We stand by these recommendations, but they need to be updated in light of the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Reducing health care spending growth remains an urgent and unresolved issue, especially as the ACA expands insurance coverage to 32 million more Americans. Some of our reform recommendations were addressed completely or partially in ACA, and others were not. While more should be done legislatively, the current reform legislation includes important opportunities that will require decisive steps in regulation and execution to fulfill their potential for curbing spending growth.

Full Report: Bending the Curve through Health Reform Implementation

Brookings Institute. (2010). Bending the curve through health care implementation. Antos, J., Bertko, J., Cernew, M., Cutler, D., de Brantes, F., Goldman, D., Kocher, B., McClellan, M., McGlynn, E., Pauly, M., Schaeffer, L., and Shortell, S.