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For all the complaints about a "government takeover of health care," the 2010 Affordable Care Act left intact a system not only firmly based on private-sector providers and insurers, but highly dependent on innovation by both to bring about the change needed to deliver affordable, high-quality...
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Beneath the interminable squabbles over Barack Obama’s health law, a transformation is taking place. To date most doctors have been rewarded for providing more rather than better services. This is unsustainable.
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Accountable care, like political ads during a presidential campaign, is everywhere these days. And like Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, the frenzy around accountable care organizations have left them overexposed.
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Regardless of who is elected president in November, the issues driving healthcare reform are not going away. New models for health care are in our future, and there will be benefits for everyone as health care providers work together to create healthier communities.
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We no longer have to wonder about what the future under Obamacare may look like, as it has been forced on Massachusetts in legislation just passed as Senate Bill 2400.
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Last week, Massachusetts took the next significant step in reforming its healthcare system: a bill that will save the state as much as $200 billion in the next 15 years. Monday, Governor Deval Patrick signed it into law, saying that Massachusetts has "cracked the code" on controlling healthcare...
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Give Massachusetts credit for setting audacious healthcare goals. It took the lead in guaranteeing near-universal health insurance coverage for its residents, providing a template for the federal reforms to follow.
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Some have criticized academic medical centers—partnerships largely between medical schools and teaching hospitals where the focus is on research, education, and patient care—for being costly in relation to the product they deliver. A recent report tends to refute that.
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Most of the focus of the Affordable Care Act is on expanding insurance coverage and defining how insurance companies provide insurance to individual purchasers. These are important issues, but the real challenge for healthcare is to change the dynamics that have led to such unsustainable spending...
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Six years after Massachusetts' historic healthcare reform legislation, the state provides a window into healthcare reform for the rest of the states, even as the exact shape reform will take is under debate. Long a mecca of medicine, we are accustomed to attention of this sort, and our healthcare...
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