Healthcare IT News October 3, 2017
Tom Sullivan

American Enterprise Institute scholar says that despite all the various attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, value-based care and payment model is the clear path forward.

Washington is missing the point on health insurance and it’s not likely that Congress will pass any major legislative changes in the next year.

That’s according to Joseph Antos, a scholar at the Washington, D.C.-based think tank American Enterprise Institute.

“Washington politicians tend to go for the quick, cheap kill,” Antos said here at the HIMSS and Healthcare IT News Pop Health Forum on Tuesday. “The sky hasn’t fallen — but give us time.”

Amid all the back-and-forth over failed bills to repeal and replace or just overturn the Affordable Care...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), ACO (Accountable Care), CMS, EMR / EHR, Health IT, Health System / Hospital, HHS, HIE (Interoperability), MACRA, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Population Health Mgmt, Primary care, Provider, Self-insured, Value Based
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