A team of analysts who could end up shaping federal health policy next year has come out with a one-page, six-point private health policy agenda.

The Paragon Health Institute posted the private health agenda brief along with similar health agenda briefs for Medicare, Medicaid and public health programs.

The list of authors who developed the briefs includes Brian Blase, the institute's president, who worked for the White House National Economic Council during Donald Trump's first term in the White House.

The team also includes Theo Merkel, the institute's director for private health reform initiatives, who served alongside Blase on the White House economic council.

Jeff Smedsrud, a longtime health insurance program developer, has suggested that the institute's work could soon be influencing Trump administration efforts to change U.S. health care policy.
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Institute candidates could be candidates for health policymaking posts at the White House or even for jobs such as head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Here are the institute analysts' ideas for improving U.S. private health options:

1. Stop throwing good money after bad and break the cycle of repeatedly expanding Obamacare subsidies to insurance companies despite underwhelming results
2. Expand high-quality, affordable coverage options by providing health insurance options outside of Obamacare and allowing employers to join together to offer more attractive plans.
3. Give Americans more control by providing them the option to directly receive federal cost-sharing assistance as a deposit into a health savings account instead of the current method of just sending that money to insurance companies.
4. Allow Americans to keep more of their own money for future health expenses by adopting more flexible standards on which insurance plans can be paired with an HSA that allows for tax-free savings.
5. Promote transparency to enable Americans to know prices in advance of receiving care by building on the Trump administration’s groundbreaking price transparency initiative, including improving the unsatisfactory compliance by the health care industry.
6. Empower medical workers by breaking down the barriers preventing Americans from getting appropriate medical education and those stopping clinicians from practicing to the full extent of their training.