Private Sector Health Care Coalition Promises Reforms to Cut Health Care Spending Growth by 1.5%

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News On May 13, 2009, President Barack Obama announced that a health care coalition pledged to reduce the health care spending growth rate by 1.5%, which is projected to cut health care spending by $2 trillion over the next 10 years. The current growth rate is projected to be six percent. The coalition includes private sector heath insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical technology, and service providers. The coalition told the president that they were determined to work together to transform the health care system. Key points of the private sector promise . . .