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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 750872" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>We are relieved that President Obama moved ahead on the appointment of Donald M. Berwick M.D. to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.</strong></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Don is a health care leader of extraordinary skill, knowledge, and compassion. He’s the right person for the job at this critical moment. He will make a fundamental difference in improving the way the system works for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and everyone.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Don is a rare individual who has the breadth and depth of experience and understanding to help bring about the improvements in the health system consumers want to see. Don gets that people are frustrated with the fragmentation and high cost of care. And he understands the urgent need to provide doctors and patients with good information about their treatment options so they can make informed decisions.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">Our system today rations care in the worst way—based on people’s ability to pay and when insurers deny or limit access to care. Don understands that our health care problems won’t be solved by rationing care but by eliminating wasteful, unproductive spending in a bloated system that too often fails to base treatment decisions on scientific evidence and the best interest for patients.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px">—Jim Guest, President and CEO of <a href="http://blogs.consumerreports.org/health/2010/07/donald-m-berwick-to-head-the-centers-for-medicare-consumers-union-applauds-berwick-nomination.html" target="_blank">Consumers Union</a></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 750872, member: 12952"] [INDENT][B]We are relieved that President Obama moved ahead on the appointment of Donald M. Berwick M.D. to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.[/B] Don is a health care leader of extraordinary skill, knowledge, and compassion. He’s the right person for the job at this critical moment. He will make a fundamental difference in improving the way the system works for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, and everyone. Don is a rare individual who has the breadth and depth of experience and understanding to help bring about the improvements in the health system consumers want to see. Don gets that people are frustrated with the fragmentation and high cost of care. And he understands the urgent need to provide doctors and patients with good information about their treatment options so they can make informed decisions. Our system today rations care in the worst way—based on people’s ability to pay and when insurers deny or limit access to care. Don understands that our health care problems won’t be solved by rationing care but by eliminating wasteful, unproductive spending in a bloated system that too often fails to base treatment decisions on scientific evidence and the best interest for patients. —Jim Guest, President and CEO of [URL="http://blogs.consumerreports.org/health/2010/07/donald-m-berwick-to-head-the-centers-for-medicare-consumers-union-applauds-berwick-nomination.html"]Consumers Union[/URL] [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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