As Senator Whitehouse so eloquently said, we need to move away from the rigidified--the disjointed--Medicare fee-for-service system to a much more collaborative and communicative thing with doctors and hospitals and health plans all working together to get health care costs down.
Sheldon Whitehouse: “As Senator Whitehouse so eloquently said, we need to move away from the rigidified--the disjointed--Medicare…”
On the recordJanuary 21, 2014
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Emphasizing the need for collaboration in healthcare to reduce costs.
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