Blumenthal is a top shelf operator and its terrific to see him leading the Fund on new work which includes constructive disruption of the US health system. His opening lines carry a finely crafted, powerful and persuasive message:<\/p>\n
“Like every American, like every person on this globe, I treasure the access I have to health care. I know I’m privileged, but every time my family members or I are sick, we are taking risks, that we are entering a system that doesn’t function as well as it should.<\/strong> As a primary care provider, as a scholar, as a professor, I’ve been interested in the same things the Commonwealth Fund is interested in. A high performing health system<\/strong> and vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n We have a system that’s excessively costly, inadequate in quality. Poor results with many other countries on quality metrics. We spend far too much on health care – $2.7 trillion when no other country comes close to that.<\/p>\n It’s important that the most vulnerable access care, because in some ways, they are the canary in the mine. Their vulnerability highlights a general vulnerability.<\/p>\n The Commonwealth fund is dedicated to producing the right information at the right time to make decisions better and make our health care system better.<\/p>\n A high performing health system will be a health system in which the providers of care, the clinicians, doctors and nurses, enjoy their work. It matters to me not just as a policy maker, and a scholar, but as a father, as both my children are physicians in training, and I hope we can leave them a system they can truly enjoy working in.<\/p>\n [….]<\/p>\n The last area, and somewhat new, is what we’re calling breakthrough innovations, which are opportunities to fundamentally transform the system through innovative approaches to health care delivery<\/strong>”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/Annual-Reports\/2013-Annual-Report.aspx?omnicid=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blumenthal is a top shelf operator and its terrific to see him leading the Fund on new work which includes constructive disruption of the US health system. His opening lines carry a finely crafted, powerful and persuasive message: “Like every American, like every person on this globe, I treasure the access I have to health … Continue reading Commonwealth Fund 2013 Annual Report<\/span>