Don Berwick: Giving Patients More Control Over Health Spending “Vicious Idea”

Don Berwick: Giving Patients More Control Over Health Spending “Vicious Idea”

It didn’t take long for Don Berwick, the controversial former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under President Obama, to start being honest again about his anti-market views once he left the administration. In a forum with health care policy expert Jim Capretta, Berwick reacted strongly to the idea that patients should be given price signals for health care costs or have a greater say in how that money is spent: Dr….

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