Yesterday Berwick made a speech at a conference sponsored by America 's Health Insurance Plans - providing assurance and American industry a glimpse of his idea for the future of Medicare Medicaid and reports the Wall Street Journal .
Berwick "the appointment was controversial because Congress has not had the opportunity to vote him and the subject. Republicans felt that Berwick is not the man for the job because of his previous support system and comments about rationing health care British health care.
In the speech, Berwick addressed some of these attacks against its ability to run the CMS and admitted he had a difficult task before him.
Over the next few years, Berwick will expand the Medicaid program to 16 million Americans, while reducing $ 400 billion in payments to Medicare providers.
Dr. Berwick said, "It 'hard reality clearly his. Our health care system in its current form is not in the work. We can not with our current health care system, giving Americans the health care they need and want and deserve. "
Three goals set by Berwick were :. better care for groups of people at risk of poor health, improving overall patient care and reduce per capita costs of health care by reducing waste
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