Obama Selects Health Policy Scholar as the Director for Medicare and Medicaid
President Obama has named 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.
Assessment
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/health/policy/28health.html?scp=1&sq=Berwick&st=cse:
Berwick on: “Reducing the Harm from Medical Care” http://www.nihcm.org/pdf/ExpertVoices_Berwick_HR_final.pdf
Berwick on: “Curing Health Care”
Wachter on: “Is Don Berwick the One”
Conclusion
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