Ninety years ago, four Cleveland physicians had a great idea for providing more efficient health care.
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Peter Orszag, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, projects that a year from now, the country will be on a path toward a much more efficient health care system.
On the one side are those who insist that one, national, organisation is able to plan better, is more efficient at delivering health care.
This change in the structure of taxation would cause those now covered by employer plans to choose less generous packages and therefore make more efficient choices about health care.
The architects of the ACO initiative somehow assume that making the existing system more efficient will make health-care affordable.
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And I'm telling you a lot of us who have supported the idea of efficient, more efficient management of the health care system are for it.
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Now, because Medicare is such a big part of the health care system, making the program more efficient can help usher in changes in the way we deliver health care that can reduce costs for everybody.
More to the point, the bulk of health reform that deals with making our health care system more effective and efficient includes many common-sense provisions that have had bipartisan support for years.
So there are a whole bunch of things we can do to make the health care system more efficient.
Another sprawling New York-area hospital, Montefiore Medicare Center, in the Bronx, said it braced for the law by cutting special contracts with insurers and government programs that would reward the health system for more efficient care.
Experts generally agree that the answer lies in changing the financial incentives surrounding health care, to make it more efficient.
Medicare Advantage shows that more dynamic and efficient private alternatives can generate better health-care value than a room of wise men deciding how the government should pay for tens of thousands of services.
The growing demand for health care should be an opportunity for more efficient services and better medicines and procedures at a more affordable cost.
What we will do is work inside of Medicare to make sure that providers -- the health care system as a whole is more efficient.
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And that's why part of my health care reform bill two years ago was let's start changing how our health care system works to make it more efficient.
In a benchmarking of best practices, both countries have a more efficient use of money in the public sector, better value for money in education and health care, fewer persons permanently placed on social welfare and a more friendly rhetoric towards business, growth and job creation.
Kieran Deeny from the Independent Health Coalition explained that domiciliary care helps the elderly to regain independence and is more efficient and much more cost effective in the long term.
And this is why any solution to the big problems of government-run health care entitlement spending must come from reforms that restructure the programs and make them more efficient.
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