Sebelius Encourages Students with New Era of Health Care
Rand Corporation’s Robert Brook recently expounded on tools one can use to measure the success or failure of the new health care law – the Affordable Care Act. He mentioned mortality rates, hospitalizations, access to health care and the associated costs. However, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius summed up the measures more succinctly in a speech to the American Medical Students Association’s annual convention earlier this month.
Whether she meant to or not, Sebelius submitted high expectations for the administration’s venture into government-run health care including promising a healthier population by focusing on prevention, suggesting primary care as the most rewarding practice in the future, and saying the new health care law will significantly reduce readmissions into hospitals.
Concerning the future, Sebelius said, “You are entering medicine at a time of historic change. The combi
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