09/18/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"This practice known as transitional care, has shown a reduction of up to 50 percent in places with high re-admission rates; and I'm very proud that this was homegrown in the State of Colorado based on..."
"If I had to sum up the last 2 years of my town hall meetings in Colorado on this issue, what I would say is that people are saying: We hated the system as it existed, the health insurance system, and ..."
"Medicare, as a result was spending $17 billion a year on these hospital re-admissions that could have been prevented."
"At the heart of this reform, in many ways, is an attempt, a rare attempt to actually change the incentive structures so that we can deliver higher quality at a lower cost."