President Appoints Medical Care Task Force

In August, President Charles M. Vest formed the Task Force on Medical Care for the MIT Community, and the group began to meet in mid-September.

Below is the Charge to the Task Force:

Charge

The Task Force on Medical Care for the MIT Communitywill be asked to recommend to the president of MIT a single vision or appropriate alternative visions for the future of health care for MIT students, employees, and retirees. (Click to view Task Force membership.)

To construct and support this vision, the Task Force should:

. Review and articulate the goals of MIT's programs to provide health care and health insurance to our undergraduate and graduate students, employees, and retirees in terms of access to care, quality of care, and costs of providing care.

. Review and assess how well current arrangements are achieving the goals for providing health care to our students, employees, and retirees through the MIT Medical Department and through other providers accessible through our insurance plans.

. Examine how other leading research universities provide health care and health insurance to meet the needs of their students, employees, and retirees.

. Benchmark the quality and costs of health care services provided directly by the Medical Department as well as the methods used by MIT to set the prices for health insurance.

. Review and assess alternative models for providing health care and establishing health insurance prices from the perspectives of quality of care, access to care, and the cost of care to students, employees, and retirees and to MIT.

. Seek input from the MIT community, including the staff of the Medical Department, Medical Management Board, Medical Consumers' Advisory Council, and Strategic Review of Benefits Committee regarding access to health care, quality of health care, and the costs of health care and health insurance.

. Based on this work, form a set of specific recommendations for advancing high quality health care in a cost effective manner for all members of our community.

So far, the Task Force has been reviewing background information about health insurance and medical care options provided by MIT and the supporting policies that are in place. When this review is complete, the Task Force will seek input from a variety of groups and committees so that the views of constituents are heard. Also, members of the community may send email to medical-taskforce@mit.edu to provide comments or questions to the Task Force.

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