Feature Story

November 2, 2009

Experts Favor Broad Medicare Reforms to Control Costs and Foster Health Care Innovations, Survey Says

From The Commonwealth Fund:

A vast majority of leaders in health care and health policy believe Medicare has been successful in providing access to care and stable coverage to the elderly and disabled individuals; however only a small percentage think the program has realized its potential to achieve other important goals, like using its leverage as the country's largest purchaser of services to control costs and promote a high performance health system. Read more from this post.