Mark McClellan
Mark McClellan
Mark Barr McClellanis the Director of the Robert J Margolis Center for Health Policy and the Margolis Professor of Business, Medicine and Health Policy at Duke University. Formerly, he was a senior fellow and director of the Health Care Innovation and Value Initiative at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at The Brookings Institution, in Washington, D.C. McClellan served as Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration under President George W. Bush from 2002 through 2004,...
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The costs are coming in lower, the benefits are coming in better than expected.
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CMS has significant concerns about the GAO's finding. These individuals will get effective, comprehensive prescription-drug coverage when the new Medicare prescription-drug benefit begins.
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The benefit needs to work for everyone. We're working ... to make sure that no one leaves without the prescriptions that they need.
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It's time for people with Medicare and those who care about them to start thinking about making Medicare decisions. And we will help them.
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It just doesn't make sense for us to be paying that much money on complications of diseases we can prevent.
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They'll be able to leave the pharmacy with their prescription in hand, even if there is not immediate evidence of what plan they're in.
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They are overwhelmingly saying it is worth the effort, and they will get savings and security, and in many cases, more savings than they expected. And we have the resources to help any other senior who is interested in taking advantage of the same program.
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People do have time to take a deep breath. They don't need to rush into a decision.
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There's no need to rush into this. There's plenty of time to make a decision ? and make a decision you can be confident about.
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The thing to think about is, 'What coverage do you want?' ... These plans are clearly competing very hard for your business.
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Adult day care programs (and) assistant programs like that clearly have a big impact. It seems like it would make sense to coordinate those services with acute health care.
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I am pleased to see Colorado committing to the health care of children.
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The Medicare aggregate data from the ICD Registry will be made available to the public to better inform patients and physicians on the most appropriate ICD therapy. Better evidence means better decisions by doctors and patients,
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The challenge in policymaking is to take all the steps we can to help avoid unnecessary costs, to help people save money, to drive costs down wherever possible. That's the way to have both affordability and better and better health care.