Donald Berwick takes charge of Medicare and Medicaid

摘要

It is not unusual for public officials to get in trouble for romantic entanglements. It is unusual when the object of ardour is not a person, but a health system. The UK's National Health Service (NHS), to be exact. "I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it," newly appointed US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Donald Berwick said in a speech in July, 2008. "All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at the health care in my own country."