{BS} Obama Chooses Health Policy Scholar as the Director for Medicare and Medicaid
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From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 9 Jul 2010 00:31 WASHINGTON — President Obama will soon name Dr. Donald M. Berwick, an iconoclastic scholar of health policy, to run Medicare and Medicaid, the programs that serve nearly one-third of all Americans, administration officials said Saturday. Dr. Berwick, a pediatrician, is president of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, Mass. He has repeatedly challenged doctors and hospitals to provide better care at a lower cost. He says the government and insurers can increase the quality and efficiency of care by basing payments on the value of services, not the volume. NBC News reported Berwick as "being in favor of rationing healthcare". Isn't this what Obama was trying to get AWAY from with the insurance companies? |