Berwick said the 2010 federal health law is changing how doctors and hospitals are paid and deliver care though such new arrangements as accountable care organizations, which are designed to improve coordination and lower costs.
But he said it is unclear whether such efforts would produce results quickly enough to hold off critics, including most Republicans, who want to make more radical changes that would shift more of the burden to beneficiaries. “That is the central question, the nub…whether that will happen fast enough, I just don’t know.”
via Berwick: Don’t Blame Medicare, Medicaid. It’s The Delivery System – Kaiser Health News.