Anne Zeiger at Fierce Healthcare was first to market with the news that the American Hospital Association decided it wasn’t really committed to helping reduce health care spending by $2 trillion over ten years. (from Modern Healthcare)
To be fair, the AHA’s boss said “we did not say that we would save this country $2 trillion on our own…” But he also didn’t commit to any measurable savings – at all.
Wow, it seems like just yesterday the pundits and pols were rejoicing in the new, broad commitment to help the nation cut health care costs. Wait, it was just yesterday…
There’s good news here. We’re blowing thru the meaningless promises, the blandishments and feel-good words quickly. That makes it just slightly more likely we’ll get to the hard stuff, where we’ll actually see if there is enough political will to significantly cut costs enough to cover more Americans.
But I still don’t see it happening.
May
15
