DonaldBerwick, a Harvard Medical School professor and chief executive of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, says as much as 40% of U.S. medical spending is squandered on inefficient operations and unnecessary overhead.
News came from the White House on July 6 that the President used his recess appointment power to install Dr. DonaldBerwick as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Several of the co-authors used to be advisers to President Obama, including former budget chief Peter Orszag, former Clinton Chief of Staff John Podesta, and former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services head DonaldBerwick.
But another more liberal school of thought, popularized by Obama's budget chief Peter Orszag, health advisor Ezekiel Emanuel and the new Medicare administrator DonaldBerwick, says that the government should play a role in studying the "comparative effectiveness" of different treatment options.