Experts favor broad medicare reforms to control costs and foster health-care innovations
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 11:56
in Health & Medicine
A vast majority of leaders in health care and health policy believe Medicare has been successful in providing access to care and stable coverage to the elderly and disabled individuals; however only a small percentage think the program has realized its potential to achieve other important goals, like using its leverage as the country's largest purchaser of services to control costs and promote a high performance health system. In the latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders survey, the experts surveyed favor sweeping changes to Medicare -reforms that would help control program costs and support broader health system reform.