Please read the Baucus Bill - Health Care Reform Mark Document FINAL
There are so many new federal agencies it's hard to remember them from day. The CMS innovation center is one of the new agencies. Whether CMS and innovation constitute an oxymoron is debatable but how can innovation ever be managed in a central agency at the federal level. My concern is that the innovation that is happening in states like Wisconsin,Vermont and elsewhere is sure to get crushed with the heavy handed regulatory approach we will inevitably see from Washington. It's not that these federal bureaucrats are bad people. to the contrary I've met many of them and they are trying to do the right thing. The problem is federal mandates never have worked to improve anything in health care and won't work now.
What to do? The democrats now have 60 votes in the senate so health legislation will pass. The important thing to do now is to make our opinion clear that federalization of all this work is the wrong solution.It must be delegated to public private partnerships at the state level where there can be innovation and improvement.
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