WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: July 11, 2013 Featuring: Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Former Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) David Cutler, PhD, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard School of Public Health Amitabh Chandra, PhD, MA, Professor of Public Policy and Director of Health Policy Research, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Member, Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisors   Is the rate of growth of health care spending slowing in the US? And, if so, to what do we attribute this momentous development? Momentous because a lot of health economists and policy makers believe there’s something to the decline besides the impact of the recent US recession. And, for the first time, there are indications that pressure from both public and private payers, reinforced by reimbursement reforms rolling out in the Affordable Care Act, ma