A couple of days ago, I decided to follow the White House via Twitter. Almost hot off the presses I received a text message about a meeting, apparently initiated by major stakeholders of the healthcare industry, with President Obama. I was immediately directed to the White House's blog--yes the White House has a blog!
In The Briefing Room -- The Blog, you can read the entire post. There are also links to the original letter from industry to the President, a list of attendees, and a fact sheet that outlines the objectives and goals. Here's an excerpt from the fact sheet.
HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY LEADERS ARE NOW PLEDGING TO MAKE A MAJOR REDUCTION IN COST GROWTH AS PART OF COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH REFORM: Today, we are seeing the beginning of a change for the future as a wide array of leaders in the health care field – insurance companies, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and providers – have come forward with a proposal that could save the country $2 trillion over the next 10 years. They are proposing to take aggressive steps to cut health care costs that, if done in the context of comprehensive health reform, will reduce the annual health care spending growth rate by 1.5 percentage points for the next 10 years.
Here's the press release issued almost immediately after the meeting.
Oh the benefits of social media!
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