Cutting Costs, Improving Health Care
Froma Harrop, Providence Journal
Welcome, Dr. Donald Berwick. Once you pull the arrows out of your back, you can get down to the important work for which you are supremely qualified: fixing the government health-insurance programs.President Obama named you head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services through a recess appointment. That deprived Senate Republicans of another televised round denouncing "socialized medicine" -- though they are churning out press releases calling you a "health-care-rationing czar" and advocate of "cookie-cutter medicine." Receive news alertsA pediatrician...
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